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