In my experience in corporate Australia, ThinkPads are the most plentiful.
top-of-the range Dell Inpirons appeal to the hardcore coder needing a massive screen.
Personally, I think IBM would have a market among us geeks for PPC notebooks running Linux, provided they were price competitive wrt to their x86 offerings and Apple's.
[Hey, thinkpads offer 3-button pointing; not so with Apple *books!!]
The last IBM PPC 750(FX?) had pretty good (non-vector) performance and low power consumption.
Nevermind the smaller die G5s they've just released for the xserve, I'd be happy with a 750VX (the rumored G3 + altivec running at 200mhz fsb).
On that note, Apple is rumored to be using that chip in the next-gen iBook when the 'mobile' G5 hits the powerbook.
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Your best bet would be to try IBM's
First, intel's set to release Dothan, it's new Pentium-M for the centrino.
Then there are rumours of new PPC chips from IBM
(a) G5 PPC 970
(b) G3+altivec PPC 750VX - just a rumour none of these chips seen in the wild.
The bottom line, Powerbooks based on motorola G4s are soon to be phased out.
In my experience in corporate Australia, ThinkPads are the most plentiful.
top-of-the range Dell Inpirons appeal to the hardcore coder needing a massive screen.
Personally, I think IBM would have a market among us geeks for PPC notebooks running Linux, provided they were price competitive wrt to their x86 offerings and Apple's.
[Hey, thinkpads offer 3-button pointing; not so with Apple *books!!]
The last IBM PPC 750(FX?) had pretty good (non-vector) performance and low power consumption.
Nevermind the smaller die G5s they've just released for the xserve, I'd be happy with a 750VX
(the rumored G3 + altivec running at 200mhz fsb).
On that note, Apple is rumored to be using that chip in the next-gen iBook when the 'mobile' G5 hits the powerbook.
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