[G4] pismo or ibook

[Hal]

The 500mHz dual USB model had a 66mHz bus. The 600mHz-900mHz model G3 
dual USB iBooks had 100mHz bus. The iBook G4s have 133mHz bus.

I went from a 500mHz Pismo to a 600mHz iBook and found them to be about 
the same. I now have a 900mHz iBook G3 and it's MUCH faster than the 
Pismo was.

The benefit of the Pismo is that it'll hold 1GB of RAM and it's 
versatile and easy to work on (swap hard drive, use 2 batteries, etc.). 
The downside is that you're stuck with a Rage128 8MB video card. The 
last generation of iBook G3s had 32MB Radeon 7500 chips.

Just my $0.02.

-Hal

On May 24, 2004, at 8:30 PM, michael Vogt wrote:

> I think the one I was thinking of buying is 12"  dual  USB
> Michael & Sharon  Vogt <><
> On May 24, 2004, at 8:18 PM, Mel Krewall wrote:
>
>> Current G4 iBooks have a 133 MHz bus. The last two generations of G3 
>> iBooks had a 100 MHz bus. The last iBook to have a 66 MHz bus was the 
>> iBook (Late 2001). Depending on how much you want to spend, the later 
>> models would probably work pretty well for you.
>> Mel
>>
>> "May thy ball lie in green pastures - and not in still waters."
>> ~Author Unknown
>>
>> On May 24, 2004, at 8:49 PM, michael Vogt wrote:
>>
>>> Will I know that Pismo has 100MHZ bus and the Ibooks are only 66MHZ
>>> Michael & Sharon  Vogt <><
>>> On May 24, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Maretta Holden wrote:
>>>
>>>> My Pismo has DVD support and S-video; it is also quite comfortable 
>>>> running Panther.
>>>> I have upgraded memory and the hard drive from the original stock 
>>>> sizes.
>>>>
>>>> On the other hand why would you want a 4 year old model rather than 
>>>> a new iBook?
>>>>
>>>> - Maretta
>>>>
>>>>> Ok I'm looking for a new Laptop I have  Lombard right now  but I 
>>>>> need to have two things with the new one
>>>>> I would need DVD support in the software so I can use the panther 
>>>>> DVD player . I'm not sure if the Pismo  does that I know the I 
>>>>> books do also I need Svideo
>>>>>
>>>>> I need your Opinions
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael & Sharon  Vogt <><
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