Thanks very much for your email, Wojciech. On 20/10/05, Wojciech Owczarek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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
I used to have a Pismo. The only slight negative from my point of view is that it was quite a bit heavier than the G3 ibook range. > 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) Wow. I didn't realise how good the specs were! I'll see if I can find one around. > > > 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. Thanks very much for the advice and information. Regards, Rory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
