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I have never owned a Apple product before, and i absolutely love this laptop. I dual boot to OS X and Gentoo w/the 2.6.7 kernel. I orginally dual booted to OS X and YellowDog 3.0 (4.0 has resently been released). YellowDog had a very painless install, and is basicly a port from the fredora core. Gentoo was a little more difficult, but has enough advantages to make it worth while.
The hardware in the PowerBook, and the overall constuction of it seems to be head and shoulders above the rest.
The only current draw back is that the video card (Radeon 9600) isn't currently supported in linux. Hopefully this will change soon.
00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 APG
00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI
01:13.0 Cardbus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
01:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLarge/Intrepid Mac I/O
01:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
01:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
01:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
01:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corperation USB (rev 43)
01:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corperation USB (rev 43)
01:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corperation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
06:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI
06:0d.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100
06:0e.0 Firewire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Firewire (rev 81)
06:0f.0 Class ffff: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev ff)
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