On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:23:49 +0100 Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would be grateful for any ideas of a relatively low cost, but > ideally reliable laptop (probably from the Apple range) with good > Linux support. I'm going to tell you a story about quite an old laptop ;) don't know about the 'cost' part, but if g3/500 suits you fine, then there is nothing as durable, reliable end expandible (!) as a PowerBook G3/2000 (FireWire), so called Pismo. And it's nicely supported. Here's how it looks: http://owczi.net/stuff/pismo3.jpg the pure black leetness ;) I now have a regular keyboard though, that one on the pic is a Danish one. on the screen you see XFCE Desktop Environment I'm running on it. the Pismo has already got an opinion of a cult laptop. You can stuff it with 1GB RAM, insert pretty much any ATA-5 compatible 2.5" HDD, it has space for an Apple Airport Wifi Card (not the Extreme one), plus one PCMCIA slot, 2 usb 1.1 ports, 2 fireWire 400 ports, external vga and s-video output (the s-video isn't suported by Linux). It has a bay with removable dvd/cd-rom drive that you can swap with a second battery. On a new battery this beauty stays alive for five hours. Imagine two batteries. You can even upgrade it to a G4/550 CPU which would make it better than the early G4 Titanium PowerBooks. It has been sold in two versions - with g3/400 and g3/500 CPUs, and some range of HDD capacity. And you can give it a combo or superdrive (dvd+cdrw) > I understand that the airport cards in the latest laptops aren't > supported, which is a shame. The Airport Extreme (latest laptops) indeed isn't supported well yet, however there have been reports of a success by using it via the Mac On Linux project. And there is some progress in an open source driver for it. The original airport (11MBit) works perfectly with Linux. -- [x]--Wojciech---owczi---Owczarek--WO111-RIPE--[_][+] |--------- mailto: owczi|at|owczi|dot|net -------| +-------------------- gg: #4245064 --------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
