Jonathan Harrington wrote:
>On 5/24/05, James McDermott <jamesmichaelmcdermott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>Joking aside, an iBook's not a bad option - they're nice machines and
>>OSX is excellent. Can be dual-booted to Linux.
>>>>>>I found OSX's sheen wore off fairly quickly.
>just in case anyone is confused, the issues below apply to linux on the
iBook, not OS-X. :)
>They are well built
>machines but make sure you research it properly. No drivers for
>built-in wireless, sleep only works on non-nvidia models (ibook uses
>ati I think). Also no recent release of java, no flash plugin, no 3d
>acceleration etc. If these dont bother you they are an excellent
>machine. Mac-On-Linux fairly rocks aswell (if you need that type of
>thing).
>>L.
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