The PowerBook G3 2000 - aka "Pismo" - is among the excellent Apple portables, in my opinion (I've owned 1 for 5 many years) possibly the very best all-round PowerBook at any time within the context of its era, that is nevertheless overlapping right into a couple or 3 subsequent eras. The Pismo is nevertheless an extraordinary machine heading on seven many years because its introduction, performs decently nicely working OS X (much better than decently having a G4 upgrade set up like mine has), and provides particular benefits unmatched by any existing Mac laptop computer, particularly its detachable unit expansion bay. I've SuperDisk/floppy, ZIP/ DVD-ROM, and CD/DVD RW 8x SuperDrive modules for mine, in addition a FireWire 800 adapter card for that CardBus bay..
The Pismo has fairly couple of deficiencies and poor routines. The FireWire bus is somewhat sluggish (a shortcoming shared with early design Titanium G4 PowerBooks), it has only 8MB of video RAM on the pedestrian RAGE Mobility 128 graphics accelerator, and some from the OEM DVD-ROM drives have proved unreliable. An additional concern afflicting a lot more Pismos because they age have been the dreaded "pink screen" show concern. My Pismo right after six in addition many years of use (I got it when it was a year old) is now starting to display a unique and jarring tinge of pink (it even creates the translucent Apple logo about the lid glow alarmingly pink) for a number of minutes right after startup or wakeup, even though so far it at some point clears.
The great news is always that for 1 point, the Pismo is a great deal simpler to consider apart for support and repairs than any later on Apple ‘Book (overlook about user servicing of TiBook or AlBook screens as an example), and that repairing "pink screen" might be surprisingly affordable. I posted a The Street Warrior column on this subject 3 many years ago, but using the passage of time and new info, along using the unhappy demise from the Street Warrior Archive, it is time for an update, that is now possibly much more topical since the Pismo closes on its seventh anniversary. Note that whilst this column is concentrated largely about the PowerBook Pismo and also the other G3 Series PowerBook versions, significantly from the info can utilize to backlight replacement in other Apple laptop computer versions as nicely.