Hmm, I don't think that's quite fair.
I own a G4 Powerbook (Albook) and it works BRILLIANTLY for me with Debian Woody. I don't even HAVE MacOSX on it. Admittedly sleep would be nice. However, I have a small usb wireless dongle for 802.11 when I need it, and don't do anything that requires decent HW 3D acceleration :) All in all, a nice small, cute piece of kit! David On Thursday 11 December 2003 00:06, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > > My G3 iBook has died a premature death due to video card failure > > and I am seeking to replace it with a Powerbook. I have read that Airport > > Extreme is not supported due to driver license issues, is that correct ? > > Broadcom makes the chip in the Airport Extreme cards, and they are > bastards who don't release specs. > > > Also, is the ATI Radeon 9600 found in the 15" and 17" AlBooks any > > better supported than the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 as installed in the > > 12" PB ? > > I sold my G3 iBook and bought a 12" PB when they first came out and I > regret it. The G3 iBook remains a wonderful machine with everything > supported; the 12" PB G4 is not yet supported for sleep or Airport > Extreme, which is a huge problem for me since I'd completely built my > (computing) life around 802.11b and portability. I long for a system > that supports these things again. If I could have one feature and not > the other, I might be able to use it, but for now (10 months?) I've > been booting OS X 95% of the time and taking refuge in my x86 Sid box > at work. I trust that in time all the hard coding work necessary to > support these chips will be done (and I wish I could do it myself), > but it remains in the distant, hardly-foreseeable future. > > If you want to run GNU/Linux right now, don't get the 12". If anyone > wants to trade me a decent, recent iBook for my 12", I will seriously > consider it. > > O.
