At 13:13 25/08/2004, Glenn Ramsey wrote:
FWIW I have a compaq presario 2132. I wouldn't say it has good hardware support but I got it working.
Personally I'd avoid Compaq laptops, I've seen far to many weird hardware issues with them. Also very picky when it comes to RAM. Had one here at work recently that didn't even like Kingston RAM. As far as a 17" Powerbook goes, it will easily do all the "play" things you mentioned using Windows XP for, but yeah, it's different software and it will take some time sampling those to find ones that work exactly how you want. That said, the MacOS X version of VLC is very nice and will handle half of what you want. I can't comment on what Linux support is like on the 17" G4 but I would expect Yellow Dog Linux to support the currently shipping Macs out of the box. Matt