MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing

[zylesea]

Is there an ETA on when support for the built in wifi will be added?  A laptop without support for the built in wifi is a paperweight to me.

No ETA but note that the driver itself is ready (it's based on the AROS one), but the configuration tool was not done yet.
If lucky the MorphOS team decides to provide the pure driver (i.e. w/o config tool) as is and w/o warranty for the brave (or stupid) to try out (until it will be integrated inside the OS with 3.1).

[zylesea]

AFAIK That's the driver for an pcmcia based Atheros chipset, not the onboard 'AirPort Extreme' wifi.

You're right. For the inbuild Airport I am not aware of any announcement.

[zylesea]

I would just erase it and reformat it for MorphOS. I still have dual boot option on my Mac mini and it never gets used.

While on the mini I share your experience, I think on the Powerbook a dual boot setup is rather handy. When at home you usually have choice of several computers and no particular reason to fire up OS X on that certain machine which is running MorphOS, but when on the road you usually have only one machine with you. Then it's nice to have a choice. As much as I like MorphOS it also has some software shortcomings which can be bridged by OS X.

But I suggest another dual boot setup (that's how I did it with my mini): Get a firewire hdd. Install MorphOS on the internal disk and OS X on the firewire disk. The fw cable is you boot menu then. If plugged in OS X starts, if not MorphOS boots straightly. A very clean solution. But requires the external drive which is no issue for a desktop machine, but kind of an issue on a mobile device.

I am not yet decided myself whether I'll use that solution for my powerbook or if I am going to do a dual boot on the internal drive.

[zylesea]

Actually installing OSX after MorphOS is a no-brainer when there allready is a big HFS(+) partition in place.

The OSX-installer will just let you use it but once it's done OSX will be the default boot-options (which can be changed by useing the last chapters of that dual-boot manual).

Don't you also need the according padding partitions? I never understood what exactly they are needed for by OS X...