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Kanga Price- Too Much?
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Hi. I just bought a Powerbook 3500 with a 250MHz processor, a 7Gig Hard drive, a 20X cd drive, an AC adapter, a bookendz docking station, and 64MB of ram for $26.00 + $20.00 shipping. Did I pay to much for this machine?
Also, I have a few questions.
the battery is dead, where can i get a new one for cheap?
does it have an ethernet port, or just 56k?
and what kind of ram does it use? i cant settle for 64MB.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Memphis, Tn. USA
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Originally Posted by masons247
Hi. I just bought a Powerbook 3500 with a 250MHz processor, a 7Gig Hard drive, a 20X cd drive, an AC adapter, a bookendz docking station, and 64MB of ram for $26.00 + $20.00 shipping. Did I pay to much for this machine?
Also, I have a few questions.
the battery is dead, where can i get a new one for cheap?
does it have an ethernet port, or just 56k?
and what kind of ram does it use? i cant settle for 64MB.
http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/g3.shtml
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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So you paid $46 for everything? That seems like a good deal to me.
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As with nearly all Powerbooks Apple has introduced, it was at one time THE fastest laptop on the planet. The Kanga is faster than its successor, the Wallstreet. It still is a viable machine for word processing and fast enough for internet browsing, although u definitely wanna get more RAM and possibly install OS X using Xpostfacto. Your 7-gig hard drive will be spacious enough for most light to medium duty use.
OS Jaguar might be the best bet if you're gonna move to OSX. If you do a full clean-up and install on your drive, a minimal install of Jaguar (not installing printer drivers, language packs, and BSD subsystem) with system 9 will probably occupy about 1.5 gigs of space on your drive still leaving u with over 5 gigs of room.
I don't know what kinds of cells the Kanga battery uses but check out:
http://www.batteryrefill.com
They take the dead cells out of your battery and stick in new ones, usually with higher capacity than the stock cells.
The bookendz docking station alone is almost worth the purchase price IMO. Don't smoke crack. You got an awesome deal!!! Congrats on your score! 
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Dallas, Texas
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That is a nice deal. Try a bit more ram and enjoy a very capable OS9 machine. I dissagree on the OSX comment, you would gain little and would never be happy with the speed. Stick to OS9 and you will have a very capable machine.
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