[BUGS] hardware changing time .. moving forward

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 29/01/2008, at 2:08 PM, leon zadorin wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2008 2:21 PM, jonathan michaels <jlm at caamora.com.au> wrote:
>> greetings all,
>>
>> i'm finally making a move in regards to teh hardware, so i have
>> ben thinking about getting a laptop, though lately i cannot get
>> past getting a toshiba but lately i have been thinking about
>> getting an apple notebook, esp if there is one available with a
>
> my $.2 (may not apply no newer iBooks):
> *) hardware - iBook G4
> *) Currently running OpenBSD (before that - NetBSD and long ago Gentoo
> and Ubuntu)
> *) making the laptop go to sleep (e.g. zzz) is not possible or not as
> simple as it sounds (due to differences in PC/Apple BIOS(less)ness) -
> is this still the case btw with newer machines?

Apple PPC arch used OpenFirmware, however I believe the Intel Macs now  
use EFI, neither of which are BIOS and both of which are better than  
PC BIOS.. Since EFI is an Intel thing I imagine PC vendors will  
eventually head in that direction as well, so support for it should be  
fairly standard sooner or later.