Hello, I know someone who has an old Apple Powerbook 5300CS... she wants to sell the thing, to get a newer machine that runs windows, as there will then be more people that can help her with "stuff"...
I am considering buying this thing, and am now busy with a little "research". Maybe I should rather try the debian-powerpc list? What I need to know, is how does the powerpc port of Debian compare to the i386 port? Are there a lot fewer packages that work on powerpc, or will I feel completely at home? I have never worked with non-intel architecture machines (except at school, before I knew anything of computers: CAD software on an Acorn...) If anyone has experience with these machines, how is their speed/performance? I believe it has a 100Mhz processor, hopefully 32MB RAM... I'm used to an old pentium 120 laptop, very slow, but suits my needs reasonably... Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe
