On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:14:39PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > It might be. On this good ol' PowerBook with a 400 Mhz G3, about a third > of the frames are skipped or dropped. And as the software seems to be > improving rather quickly in this area, the new iBooks might soon be well > enough for smooth DVD playback. Are there people actively working on this? The mood I was getting was that G3's weren't work the trouble. I myself don't have much in the way of PowerPC assembly brains, or video processing mojo. > > Or should I just wait another 6 months for Apple to cycle the hardware > > again? > > There will be even better models in a year and so on, so you could as > well just let it be. ;) Well, yeah, but I'm in the market for a laptop now. The iBook looks great to me unless there is no hope of realtime DVD playback under Linux. > For me it's now or never, I'll go for a new TiBook as soon as I have > the money. I can't justify $3000 for a laptop, personally. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux | sex was dirty. I said, "It is if branden@debian.org | you're doing it right." http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Woody Allen
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