On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 17:25 +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > Hi, > I need a light and small notebook with a high battery life.I run already > Debian on my PC desktop. I am very interested in tryingpowerpc achitecture, > and I am hesitating between an iBook 12" and aPowerBook 12". > Could you tell me please which of these two models is best supportedby Linux > ? I don't need a priori any graphics acceleration. I am moreinterested in the > power saving regimes and stuff like that. Any advice? > Thanks > Please, Cc me in your answers. I haven't subscribed (yet) to the list. > Cedric
The main issue is the video chip. If it's an ATI, it will either work out of the box or real soon if it's a new chip not yet supported. If it's an nvidia, there is a lot less luck with things like sleep (suspend-to-RAM) for which we have no working implementation at least yet. So I'd go for the iBook or the 15" (or 17") powerbooks, though if your goal is light & small, then iBook is probably the best choice at this point. Note: If you can wait a week or two, everybody is sort-of expecting Apple to release updated machines (and thus maybe laptops, we don't know) in the upcoming few days. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
