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List:       netbsd-users
Subject:    Re: PowerBook 12" support?
From:       Hauke Fath <hf () spg ! tu-darmstadt ! de>
Date:       2006-06-27 9:30:19
Message-ID: f06230901c0c6a9d0989a () [130 ! 83 ! 118 ! 66]
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Am 27.06.2006 um 15:14 Uhr +1000 schrieb Malcolm Herbert:
>I'm looking at purchasing a second hand PPC-based Ti PowerBook 12" and
>was wanting to run NetBSD on it full time ... how good is support for
>the hardware that comes with these devices?

You may be better off asking that kind of question on port-macppc. 
The MI NetBSD lists default to i386 hardware.  ;)

>I'd definately want suspend/resume and other power management controls to
>work ...

There's the rub. Power management is still an issue with i386 
notebooks, and all but nonexistant on !i386. When I last tried NetBSD 
on a Tibook 550 MHz, after fifteen minutes it became so hot i 
couldn't touch it, not to mention the fan noise.

If you need proper power management, you'll probably be better off 
with MacOS X. You could still use pkgsrc with that.

	hauke

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