On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 23:46, Serge Rey wrote: <snip> > 2) airport card. my reception seems to be ok despite reports by other > tibook owners that this can be lousy. at the moment i'm having problems > with some network apps - ssh/scp work fine on the aiport but browsing is > not so good (time-out problems). the onboard nic works just fine > however.
Allow me to de-lurk for a moment. :) w/ regards to your airport card, my I suggest the following url: http://www.macnet2.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=11561 (scroll down to UPDATE: Following a call to Apple) I don't personally own a TiBook but I've heard that this procedure has done wonders for their Wifi reception. > in summary, the x20 has been my main laptop for going on 3 years now. it > has seen heavy use and although one keyboard and one drive have died on > me, they were under the original (3-year) warranty and replaced by big blue. > the > pb comes with only a 1 year warranty by contrast and i've heard from > other tibook owners that shelling out the $ for the extended care might > be a wise investment. > > at the moment if i had to pick one machine i'd stick with the x20. as i > figure out more about the pb this might change down the road however. I dual-boot Debian/WinXP Pro on an (upgraded) IBM Thinkpad 600. Runs sid/gnome2/mozilla ok, but I would recommend a lighter WM/galeon though. I have 10/100Ethernet and 802.11b PCMCIA Cards from SpeedStream and they work very well. Please note that I'm running Sid/unstable; the version of the PCMCIA package in Woody does *NOT* support these cards (out of the box anyways). A discussion regarding linux on Laptops appeared on Slashdot a day or two ago(too lazy to look right now). People there offered up some links. I offer the few that I can rememeber here: http://www.powernotebooks.com/ http://www.discountlaptops.com/ http://www.emperorlinux.com/ I hear that certain Dell Laptops are very linux friendly. As are certain T Series Laptops from IBM. I would love to own a Powerbook but I find that they are simply too expensive and the linux experience isn't quite as "smooth" as it is in the x86 side. -- Randy Duran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
