Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

[Laurent de Segur <ldesegur@mac.com>]

I just got a new iBook 2001 600MHz+COMBO-DVD/CDRW+256MB. It plays DVDs both
under macos9 and running debian using the vlc package without any problem at
all. The previous one had many troubles even playing simple MP3 due to 66MHz
bus speed mostly I believe. The increase in cpu speed is not phenomenal but
it can only helps.

Laurent

> From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:19:06 -0500
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
> Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> 
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:25:23PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
>> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
>> 
>>> 2) there is a combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW option available for it!
>>> (It completely blows my mind that this isn't an option on the TiBook.)
>> 
>> This is definitely something that pisses me off about my tibook.  I
>> could care less about DVD's, and would much rather have a CDRW.
> 
> Er, the new 667 MHz TiBook *is* available with a built-in CD-RW.
> 
> Just not the DVD-ROM+CD-RW combo that is an option on the iBook.
> 
> <http://www.apple.com/powerbook/>
> 
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