i am considering buying a new battery and a 500mhz cpu for the pismo. 3 questions: 1) will i notice a considerable difference in speed between the 400mhz cpu and a 500mhz cpu (both G3)?

2) is it more worthwhile ( and doable) to overclock the stock cpu?

3) what brand battery (if any) should i buy?

thanks!

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1. Assuming the L2 cache is the same, you'll see a 20-25% improvement. Assuming the 500 MHz has a larger L2 cache, you'll see an even larger improvement.

2. Not sure.

3. Apple hasn't made any batteries for these in a long time. Any "new" Apple batteries have been sitting around for years and are worthless. Buy the cheapest off-brand you can find on eBay, because all of the off brand batteries (including name brands like OWC or NewerTech or BTI) come from one of a few suppliers in China, and they're all of about the same quality.