>So it's possible to run Mac OS X on a PowerBook 3400 and a Kanga...but my >question is, how fast (or not fast, rather) is OS X going to run on a >603e chip? Has anybody tried this? Does anybody have any experience with >this matter?
The 3400 video controller is fully supported; the Kanga's will only work in 256 colors at the present time. The Kanga's controller is a slightly improved version of the Chips & Technologies controller in the 3400.
I've run OS X on two 3400's, or should I say, the same one with a new logic board after it developed sleeping sickness. The first time, it was a 3400/240 with 144 MB of RAM, which ran 10.1.5. Performance was pretty bad, the system just chokes on anything graphical. Later on, I booted it in 10.1.5 after replacing the logic board with a new 3400/180 board, which as you might imagine was even worse. The system now runs 10.2.8 and the CPU has been chipped to a stable 198 MHz by replacing the clock crystal. It's faster than it was before, but still not anything I'd want to use on a day-to-day basis, and I usually stay in OS 9. (Interestingly, the 198/44 configuration seems faster than 240/40 in a lot of cases.)
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