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Greatest “Classic” Mac Laptop: Powerbook G3 Pismo (2021)

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Random trivia, this is the last model where the Apple logo on the back of the screen is oriented to be right side up for the user when they close the display. Their next laptop was the G4 titanium, which rotated the logo to be right side up when looking at the back of the screen while it's open.

Didnt thinkpads do the same at some point?

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this was my first Apple laptop. i even had an orinoco gold wifi pcmcia card, a pringles can, a bit of all-thread, and an antenna cable, and away my friend and i went on wardriving expeditions. back then, wifi wasn't nearly as established yet, and it was fun to a couple of knuckleheads to map out locations. if only we could have known how mapping would evolve.

Re: Greatest “Classic” Mac Laptop: Powerbook G3 Pismo (2021)

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Random trivia, this is the last model where the Apple logo on the back of the screen is oriented to be right side up for the user when they close the display. Their next laptop was the G4 titanium, which rotated the logo to be right side up when looking at the back of the screen while it's open.

The fact that they made it glow when open is what made the decision just so weird. The only way it would glow was when it was open. So the fact that they made it not glow when they did flip it was just all sorts of whathehuh? kind of logic.

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The Wally does have one advantage over the Pismo: it runs Rhapsody the best of any laptop (which is to say merely acceptably). If you're into system archaeology and don't want to allocate an entire desktop to that purpose, the Wally is a good fit. Rhapsody is neat, sort of OS X but where Platinum never died.

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Random trivia, this is the last model where the Apple logo on the back of the screen is oriented to be right side up for the user when they close the display. Their next laptop was the G4 titanium, which rotated the logo to be right side up when looking at the back of the screen while it's open.

The fact that they made it glow when open is what made the decision just so weird. The only way it would glow was when it was open. So the fact that they made it not glow when they did flip it was just all sorts of whathehuh? kind of logic.

check where the wifi antenna was on the G4, if ifixit still has that? or maybe just panel manufacturer specs changed?

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I never owned one of these while they were contemporary (though did own a somewhat comparable iMac) but picked a 500Mhz model up a couple years ago.

Running OS 9 on modern storage (SSD), it's surprising how responsive it is for most tasks with a single core sub-gigahertz CPU and RAM capacity below the on-disk size of many apps these days. Much of any impression of slowness in day-to-day use when it was current was almost certainly a result of its mechanical HDD.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that they made it glow when open is what made the decision just so weird. The only way it would glow was when it was open. So the fact that they made it not glow when they did flip it was just all sorts of whathehuh? kind of logic.

check where the wifi antenna was on the G4, if ifixit still has that? or maybe just panel manufacturer specs changed?

did you reply in the wrong place? i'm not following

Re: Greatest “Classic” Mac Laptop: Powerbook G3 Pismo (2021)

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post #18

Not really related but I really like the PhpBB skin Looks very modern, not really like a “classic” old-style PhpBB with tons of annoying icons and signatures.

Looks like it's a custom fork of a theme called Anami: https://themeforest.net/item/anami-responsive-phpbb3-forum-t...
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