On Tuesday 08 January 2002 05:06, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line) > > but iBooks are rather nice with long batter life and gorgeous > > screens. > > Yes, I checked them up. The screen size is only 12.1", apart from
Apple introduced a new iBook with 14.1" display yesterday. Check it out, it's on the apple site. But it's $1799 with 700Mhz and DVD/CDRW combo. Still quite inexpensive compared with Wintel consumer laptops. Apple hardware is solidly built. > that it looks really good for the price vs the performance you get. > But it doesn't have a floppy drive. Debian installation experiences > on the net shows that they sometimes don't boot off the CD... also You may want to check out http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html > sound doesn't work at this point. Apart from that it is a good > machine. But somehow I dislike Apple because they use a lot of > propreitary ASICs on their hardware and don't publish anything about > them, which is bad. Apple is going to use more and more standard parts to reduce cost. I don't know if Darwin, Apple's Open Source, provides also source code for a whole hardware experience. - Michael
