PowerBook G4 MorphOS sneak preview

[Matt_H]

Looking good! I imagine a touchpad driver is one of the pending challenges.

Is there anything I can do to help make this an official confirmation? Donations? Moral support? Epic poems in your honor?

[Matt_H]

Take a look at his homepage..  it is 1.67 GHz and 2GB mem I think.

Yep. Looks like a top-o'-the-line 15" model.

(The adorable little 12" version uses a different graphics chip, unfortunately, so I don't think we'll be seeing support for that any time soon.)

[Matt_H]

Would love to run MorphOS on the 17" Powerbook. But I think I will settle for the 15", better get a good deal now than to wait untill the release

I think the 15" and 17" are extremely similar, so if there's support for one there'll probably be support for the other.

[Matt_H]

The 12" Ibook had almost the same specs as the now supported Mac mini. (32mb Radeon 9200)
Maybe after he gets the laptop specific stuff working on the powerbook the ibook could come later?

I nearly bought an iBook on the chance that would happen. I may still. But I'll probably sacrifice iBook compactness in favor of a PowerBook if it means I don't need to rip the entire machine to shreds to replace a drive. Yikes!

[Matt_H]

Wouldn't that be the Mac Mini silent upgrade

No, the Mac Mini can't run OS9 natively. There's the Classic emulation if you keep it on 10.4, though.

I think there's a 1.25GHz G4 tower that does native OS9.