Dean Hamstead wrote: > just buy an ibook.
Sorry, IMO that is not good advice. I have had an iBook for three years and until recently it worked very well. However, about 6 weeks ago I installed patches under OSX and since then the machine has refused to wake up after sleep under Linux. I have tried about a dozen different kernel versions, about 5 different versions of pbbuttondsd and associated tools, booted into t openfirmware and did a firmware reset and the machine still doesn't work the way it should. Under OSX things are still OK, but I find OSX a PITA. I also have had fiends buy current model powerbooks intending to run Linux on them and then have to wait 6 months for the Linux drivers to be stable enough to run Linux on it. Finally, I think all current Apple laptops have wireless using the broadcom chip for which no driver exists under Linux. I won't be buying an iBook or a powerbook any time in the near future. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." -- Vance Petree -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
