John Franklin [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > I bought myself an iBook. I love it. OS X rocks. They claim a six > hour battery life, it's closer to five. No PC Card slots, but there are > two USB and one FireWire, 10/100, modem. The airport card fits under > the keyboard so you're not likely to snap off the antenna by setting it > down at odd angles. The screen only does 1024x768. The 14" screen is > very readable, tho.
Veering dangerously offtopic, I'd like to toss in a vote for an OSX based laptop. I -love- our TiBook. The battery life is long and the screen is just insane (in a good way). Note that 'normal' iBooks come with a 12" display that runs at 1024x768 (very usable - OSX text rendering is quite crisp), but that the 'big' iBooks come with a 14" display that also runs at 1024x768 (to your text is much larger, comparitively). The batteries on all the current Apple laptops have a little button you can press (on the outside) that will light up a small LED bar to tell you how much battery life you have left (handy when the laptop is asleep or suspended). As for the expansion: there's very little you'll need to add that you can't find in a USB interface or firewire interface. Harddrives, cd/dvd burners, even sound mixing devices are all available in USB or firewire. But if you must use a PCMCIA interface, the TiBook has one TypeII slot (not a TypeIII!). > > The dev tools (included with OS X on a separate CD) has gcc. There are > some extra flags for linking to "Frameworks" (OS X's shared library > package, includes headers and libraries), and most gnu software builds. > There's a ton of packages already built (http://www.versiontracker.com). Don't forget Fink! http://fink.sourceforge.net/ Mike -- "Let the power of Ponch compel you! Let the power of Ponch compel you!" -- Zorak on Space Ghost GNUPG Key fingerprint = ACD2 2F2F C151 FB35 B3AF C821 89C4 DF9A 5DDD 95D1 GNUPG Key = http://www.enoch.org/mike/mike.pubkey.asc
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