I bought a new IBook, decked out, 640MB of ram, and a
30Gig drive. It is really nice. I thought about getting a
Titanium for a while, but quite frankly the G4 probably
would not have done much for me. The highend TiBook
has a 48GB 5400 RPM drive, which probably would
made a lot of building go faster (I am pretty sure I am
currently I/O bound). In the end I like the iBook size
better. Being able to burn CDs and watch DVDs while
on a plane is also nice ;-)
I did some hacks to the bootloader so that I can keep
OS X and OS 9 on the same partition, but still see them
both in the OF boot chooser, which is really useful.
Maybe I will post some instructions sometime, but
since it involves moving aorund partitions and other
nasty things it kind of complex. At first I thought you
could do it with the normal stuff just very strangely
arranged, but in the end I needed to build a custom
BootX.
I also ripped my entire CD collection. I ordered an iPod,
which should be here soon. I want to be ready when it
gets here, I hope it arrives before my trip back to the
east coast for thanksgiving.
Unfortunately what I have been working on lately is not
opensource, which is annoying, but I should be back to
my usual stuff soon. It has been a fun side trip, but I like
being out in the open more.