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January 22, 2007 11:18 AM
Not sure what’s going on but my old Pismo PowerBook is giving me fits. Lockups, not waking up from sleep, not allowing a login from wakeup after sleep. I’d hate to have to get a new one but it might be inevitable.
If Dave decides he doesn’t want too much for his 17“ PowerBook I might buy that. It’s got internal IDE problems but I might be able to overcome those. At the very worst I can eventually get the internals replaced on it. It works fine with the USB/Firewire powered hard drive. Have to find out what he wants for it.
I don’t like the idea of having to replace her but I probably don’t have any choice. I could buy another one just like her for $250 or so but that also won’t completely solve the problem. *sigh* I think in this case I might have to do the same thing I did with my truck. Buy a newer but used model and pay out some serious cash. My wife is not going to be happy about that because it means paying a lot more for a replacement than I paid for her notebook.
That might be the solution right there though. Buy the $250 direct replacement for this model and transfer the ram, hard drive, and airport card. If the problem follows any of those then I know that the problem is parts and not the system itself.
If that truly is the case then I can not only get replacement parts but I can get replacement parts for both and sell one on E-Bay to re-coup my costs. Not a bad plan. Not exactly what I’d like to do - I could really use the extra screen real-estate that the 17” would give me - but it’s what I might be able to afford to do now.
Still the 17“ would be a serious upgrade for me. It would last me for quite some time. (This train of thought sounds oddly familiar - like it was the same train of thought that I had when buying my truck.)
If I take out $1400 from the Credit Union account it will be replaced in two months. That’s a lot faster than in the past. And if I’m using the new PowerBook during that time I will be much better off than now.
More thought on this is required...
Not sure what’s going on but my old Pismo PowerBook is giving me fits. Lockups, not waking up from sleep, not allowing a login from wakeup after sleep. I’d hate to have to get a new one but it might be inevitable.
If Dave decides he doesn’t want too much for his 17“ PowerBook I might buy that. It’s got internal IDE problems but I might be able to overcome those. At the very worst I can eventually get the internals replaced on it. It works fine with the USB/Firewire powered hard drive. Have to find out what he wants for it.
I don’t like the idea of having to replace her but I probably don’t have any choice. I could buy another one just like her for $250 or so but that also won’t completely solve the problem. *sigh* I think in this case I might have to do the same thing I did with my truck. Buy a newer but used model and pay out some serious cash. My wife is not going to be happy about that because it means paying a lot more for a replacement than I paid for her notebook.
That might be the solution right there though. Buy the $250 direct replacement for this model and transfer the ram, hard drive, and airport card. If the problem follows any of those then I know that the problem is parts and not the system itself.
If that truly is the case then I can not only get replacement parts but I can get replacement parts for both and sell one on E-Bay to re-coup my costs. Not a bad plan. Not exactly what I’d like to do - I could really use the extra screen real-estate that the 17” would give me - but it’s what I might be able to afford to do now.
Still the 17“ would be a serious upgrade for me. It would last me for quite some time. (This train of thought sounds oddly familiar - like it was the same train of thought that I had when buying my truck.)
If I take out $1400 from the Credit Union account it will be replaced in two months. That’s a lot faster than in the past. And if I’m using the new PowerBook during that time I will be much better off than now.
More thought on this is required...