On Di, 2004-07-27 at 14:48 -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > The wireless will be a problem with any current model. The tibooks had > the original airport card, which is well understood. Any albook comes > with airport extreme, which is based on a broadcom chip which is still > mostly a mystery to people, so there isn't a driver at this point. I second that. All my attempts to create something close to a working driver together with some of my friends failed utterly. Probably becase we are all new to the whole device-driver thing ;) - But the external adapter (PCMCIA) I used on my IBM a20p works fine. > > If you want 802.11 networking on a current powerbook, you'll have to > get an external adapter. There are several supported USB and PCMCIA > units that should just work. > > > I haven't messed with 3D graphics but I hear they work using a different > > branch of the X code. Never really had a need for the stuff (on my > > powebook at least). > > The graphics may be a problem. Last I checked, there still wasn't support > for the Radeon 9600/9800 or any nVidia chips for 3D graphics. However, > the basic 2D acceleration works fine on my Radeon 9600 card, and I don't > do much 3D graphics, so I haven't been concerned about it. > Now this is a tough one... 3D graphics isn't even the biggest problem about the radeon... Having no working suspend is te pain. I wish it would be as smooth as the <2 sec wakeup under macOS X. I even tried using macOS but somehow I lack the control I want regarding keymap, look and feel, available applications and the challenge ;) > Most other hardware should work, but it depends somewhat on the exact > model you get. I believe sleep is still broken on nVidia based models. As mentioned I do not have working suspend here, and I habe the ati radeon 9600 version. Greetings Timo Reimerdes
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