Apple have launched their new G4 PowerBook and its titanium. It looks pretty neat and they have definately put some effort in to beef up the specs.

notes that they have confirmation that LinuxPPC boots on the ultra light Titanium PowerBook G4. They plan to post a picture of Titantium running the LinuxPPC Installer tommorow.

According to these CNet articles - 20% more then the rest of the industry, and closes it doors (more ). Newer Tech is well known for their quality CPU upgrades, and their BookEndZ docks for PowerBooks. It's too bad to see them go, but if you still want their stuff, has recieved their remaining inventory.

Appleinsider has a rumor about , expected to be released in Macworld SF the first week of January, that will be far more lightweight and portable then previous models. Having an lightweight PowerPC Netbook, would be great, for those PowerPC Linux users who are always on the move.

Dying for one the Titanium Powerbooks? Small Dog is running another .

According to Macweek, . Reasons for the delay are unknown even to "inside" dealers, and they are not expecting to have the PowerBook G4 "Titatium" shipping until early March 2001. Macweek also talks about a possiblity of other high-speed G4 machines (such as the PowerMac G4) being delayed.

Macworld have a nice of the new titanium powerbooks. Lots of pictures and plenty of comments definately work a look.

Standard monolithic PowerPC Linux is now bootable on the PowerBook 1400, 5300 and possiblity the 2300. PowerBook's mediabay and PCMCIA do not work, and serial is unreliable. IDE and SCSI drives using the 53C80 chip are supported. Support for NuBus cards has been started. More on this can be found at the . Dana Rawding has a with log files from Nubus-PMac, kernels, and other stuff for installing PowerPC Linux on Nubus machines.

Many people who ordered the new PowerBook G4s are finding long delays in shipping for them, running into export and production problems, according to this .

PenguinPPC.org has an section on Mac hardware, dealing with the new PowerBook G4 (Titanium), iMac 2001 Models (which are unsupported due to their new NorthBridge chip), and the PowerMac G4 2001. Also, see 's news on the Titanium PowerBook G4, for information on installing LinuxPPC on them (most of this is also valid for installing other Linux distros such as Debian, SuSE or YDL).

Installing and using LinuxPPC 2000 on a new G4 Titanium Powerbook can be interesting, fun, frustrating, and joyous - all at the same time. This short diatribe provides some unique tips on enjoying Linux on Apple's new 5-lb. wonder.

There are some very neat photographs of the insides of a Ti PowerBook. You can check them out . There is also a slashdot article about this . Wonder if the thing still works :)

Tonight we have brought online with its new look. We have decided to extend the beta for at least another week or so. We made the decision this evening, when we reviewed the remaining content and felt it would be better to delay the launch and provide better content than to rush it. We are in need of a few additional staff members, especially ones interested in maintaining the powermac, powerbook and rs/6000 sites. If you are interested please contact .

displays new versions of the iBook and the PowerBook Titanium.

While the PowerBook has seen a significant update, the new iBook merely is what it should have been 5 month ago.

Read on...

The has an with Bruce Gee, former PowerBook Product Manager, about the inside story of the PowerBook 100's development and introduction 10 years ago.

PenguinPPC has posted a note by Ben Herrenschmidt about the usability of Linux on the new Titanium PowerBook with Radeon graphics.

Details within...

Earlier this week announced that their new PowerBooks are being shipped with option DVD/CDRW combo drives. To learn more visit Apple's page.

The firmware updater available at provides for improved FireWire support, netbooting and a better management of computers with more than 1 GB of RAM.

There's an interesting in our about using YDL 2.1 on a PowerBook G4. As I know many people have trouble to get it working, this may be a helpful read...

A new release of the , which makes the hotkeys on iBooks and PowerBooks for volume, brightness and CD eject work, is available.
This version is a complete rewrite from scratch and no longer depends on eject, libpopt and glib.

Courtesy of PenguinPPC, "The 800mhz Titanium PowerBook has been running at 667mhz under Linux. The machines actually boot at 667 mhz and it is up to the operating system to change the processor speed. Unfortunately, due to the closed nature of OSX we were not able to easily surmise what needed to be done. French uber-hacker Benjamin Herrenschmidt has now announced that after a night spent playing with registers that the new TiBooks run at their intended speed. Kernel support is available in his kernel tree but as always we recommend you contact your vendor for kernel updates. "