On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:24:00AM +0100, Craig wrote:
At the moment, I am thinking about ditching my 3 months old laptop to get a ibook. Why? My housemate bought one last friday and it is _gorgeous_. Okay, that would be a bit of a understatement but I am using a imac at work on and off.
But dang, I'm still impress with the ibook. Is it a smart move to ditch this laptop to switch over? Many people I have spoken to are doing this!
If anyone on this mailing list is using OS X. Please convince me if I really want to make the switch. So far, I am really appealed by the o/s, battery life and most of all, it's unixy feel! ;)
I'm interested to hear your thoughts!
I have a PowerBook G4 15" and by jove it is a sexy little thing. I have Debian (Testing/Unstable) + Kernel 2.4.20 (benh) running on it and everything is great. X is great, sleep works, airport card works, sound works. Modem is a no.
The only thing that is downside is the latest Java SDK's available are 1.3.1. IBM is working on a 1.4.1, but that's only beta at the moment.
Oh, another thing is the single mouse button. I don't like trackpads anyway so I always stick in a three-button mouse, so it's not a problem for me.
Don't know how the above compares with an iBook, although I believe there are issues with maybe video card and ide stuff? Check out debian-powerpc list.