I may be buying a G3 Powerbook soon. Some one has it for a good price but he doesn't have the power cable so he doesn't know if it works. I have a universal power adapter that will work with it, but I don't know if it would be worth it for me to get it. What should I look for? I know that there were many different processor speeds and there were numerous Hdd sizes. Can I look at a model # or something? I have an iMac G3 right now that slowly runs OS-X. Could this Powerbook be any improvement?

Old stuff that still works, somewhat....

There are 3 versions of the G3 Powerbooks: Wallstreet,
Lombard, and Pismo. They are easy to identify by the
ports on the back. The Wallstreet has SCSI and Serial but
no USB. The Lombard has USB and SCSI but no Firewire.
The Pismo has USB and Firewire but no SCSI.

The Wallstreet has either a 233 or 300 Mhz processor. The
Lombards are 333 and 400, the Pismos are 400 and 500.
You didn't mention the speed of the iMac you have, so
you'll just have to compare the speed of it with the speed
of these.

If you max the RAM on a Lombard or Pismo, they don't
work to bad. I've got a Lombard 333 maxxed out with
RAM running 10.3.9. It's no speed demon, but it does the
everyday stuff admirably.

I can't remember if my iMac is 333,350,366mhz, but I'm sure that it's somewhere in the three hundred mhz. I added a total of 256mb of RAM to it, (I used two 256mb sticks but the iMac only shows 128mb in each slot). But it's pretty slow. By that I mean that it won't even show the aquarium movements at all. The web surfing isn't bad. I just want to mess with it anyways. I have many other PC's some with MS, some with Linux. But I want to be able to take the Mac on the road and play with when I'm at work or out somewhere. I'll check it out as soon as possible.

Thanks.

Old stuff that still works, somewhat....

My friend saw it and says that there are no USB ports. I probably won't buy it. I was wanting to run OSx on it, but it sounds like it's a Wallstreet. So even if it's a 300mhz model, it still won't run too well.

Thanks for the help.

Old stuff that still works, somewhat....

Is this a wallstreet, or a Kanga?