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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    metatron
    Posts: 72 from 2011/11/18
    Greetings,

    because i was infected with the morphOS "virus" on the amiganoid event in Essen (Germany) a few month ago i recently bought myself a Powerbook on ebay:
    PB 5.9 2005
    17"WSXGA+, 1.67GHz G4, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 100GB HDD, Radeon 9700 128MB

    Because i read something about that AirPort will not be supported yet but ath5k based cardbus card will, i went for a Netgear WG511T (2,50€ 8-) ).

    So i have a Powerbook and a WLAN card - okay morphOS is missing but thats just a matter of (hopefully few) weeks/month. But is there something else which you would to recommend to me regarding the equipment?

    Thank you very much and i cant await installing morphOS!

    Best regards from germany!
  • »28.11.11 - 16:33
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    amigadave
    Posts: 2795 from 2006/3/21
    From: Northern Calif...
    Welcome to the MorphOS community and the best Next Gen Amiga system. It sounds like you are ready for MorphOS3.0 when it is released. Now just be patient and wait with the rest of us.
    MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
  • »28.11.11 - 17:38
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    osco
    Posts: 680 from 2009/10/20
    From: Boston, USA
    Check link, download and read manuals
    http://homepage.mac.com/micahgartman/web/sahnapiranha/archive.html
    check your battery out.
    buy a spare.
    run AHT 5.2.5 hardware test
    run apple care test cd as well
    most of us are CUTTING BAIT waiting for Morph 3.0
    regards osco :-)
    Mac Mini 1.5GHz, 1G, 250G Drive, Apple Cinema Display, MorphOS 3.1 registered, MacOS 10 PowerBook (5,8) 1.67Hz, 2G, 80G Drive,........Waiting
    PowerBook (5,8) 1.67Hz, 2G, 40G MorphOS 3.1 unregisterd
  • »28.11.11 - 17:41
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  • Moderator
    Miky060
    Posts: 694 from 2003/2/24
    From: ITALY
    Welcome!
    You have the perfect hardware to run MorphOS 3.0, you need nothing more. Maybe an external USB mouse with 2 buttons and a scroll wheel? :D

    PegasosII "Elite" Machine --> PowerMac MDD "popular" Machine --> MacMini 1.5 "still more popular" Machine
  • »29.11.11 - 12:18
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    metatron
    Posts: 72 from 2011/11/18
    Thx osco for that very helpfull link.
    Very nice service manual and i didn't know that there are such "system-test" DVD/CDs. I will check it as soon i get some blank CD/DVDs.
    Btw. the service man. let's me think about disassemble the display cover and give it to a friend of mine to laser a buuterfly into it... 8-)
    Regarding the bat.: strange to say, but although it's about 5-6y old i can get about 1 1/2 hrs out of it (ok, ok, no compare to brand new...) but i don't think i want to carry around this 17" brink so at this time ther's no need for a new one. Just wanted to have a nice system for morphOS and i don't wanted to put another display on my desk 8-) for a mini or so.
  • »29.11.11 - 18:27
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    eliot
    Posts: 641 from 2004/4/15
    Hello metatron,

    welcome back to the next amiga generation!
    You won't regret joining MorphOs!
    regards
    eliot
  • »30.11.11 - 04:24
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