[rescue] Powerbook Pismo G3 vs G4 upgrade?

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Sat Dec 20 18:08:00 CST 2003


On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, sammy ominsky wrote:

> Who says it needs to be shipped? It should be a VERY easy upgrade.

The company who makes the upgrades does not have the license to
distribute copies of the firmware.  On the Pismo, the firmware lives on
the processor card.  So, you send it in, they desolder your firmware,
solder it onto the G4 card, install it, and send it back to you.

That's the story, anyway.

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