I recently got access to an older MacBook Air (from 2008 or so). The model number is A1237, it brings a Core2Duo CPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB hdd ...
So I got motivated and installed refind as a help to boot from live-media (USB-stick as there is no cdrom) ... in turn resized the hfs-partition and transplanted some gentoo-installation in there. I am pretty much satisfied with my efforts so far: refind lets me chose GRUB2 ... ok, I somehow managed to configure it in a way so that it does not find its grub.cfg yet. Call it a security feature ;-) -> I have to manually tell it where to read that file every time booting ... I will figure out. After that I can boot gentoo and in turn also Gnome-3.8 ... fine. Does anyone of you gentoo-users also run gentoo on such a hardware? my todos are (for now): * I only got the harddisk detected via IDE/PATA (so it is hda and not sda now). It should be accessible via AHCI as well, but that didn't work yet (and I expect some more performance via AHCI). * Sound via pulseaudio: not there yet ... no errors, devices displayed correctly, but no sound. * suspend to ram in gnome: got to check that * right clicks with touchpad ... yes, sure, it's not the most powerful hardware anymore but it might be some inbetween-device for me: better to write and surf than my tablets ... but lighter and easier to carry than my thinkpad. And it's fun to run gentoo on it ;-) Stefan
