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PowerBook G3 Lombard Upgrade Guide
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RAM
The Lombard has two RAM slots. You can place a 256 MB chip in each one for half gigabyte of memory. Browse our Lombard RAM Selection for a chip that suits your need for speed. You must use a low profile chip in the lower slot, but the upper slot can be whatever you choose. Don't forget to install it using our free Fixit Guide.
Hard Drive
Remember when you bought your Lombard and wondered how you are ever going to use up 10 GB of hard drive space? Ahh, the naivete of youth. Store a lifetime of pictures and movies without having to trade in that comfortable feel of your little black box. Browse our hard drives for one that fits your storage needs.
Oh, and with our tools and instructions, you can even install it yourself!
Processor
If you are running a Lombard on a 333 Mhz Processor, try bumping it up to 400 MHz.
You can even install it yourself!
Optical Drive
Lombards are not inherently able to play DVDs. They require a special DVD decoder that was integrated into the second release of the Lombard. If your Lombard didn't come with a DVD drive, then you probably don't have one. There are pc card solutions to this problem, but their effectivitiy varies greatly. If you have the decoder, you can only watch DVD's in OS9. It will not work in OSX or classic. Apple never developed the hardware for it.
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