[ug-bosug] You thoughts on OpenSolaris and MacBook Pro

[Sriram Narayanan]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Manish Chakravarty
<manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sriram,
>
>  I am in need of a more powerful laptop.
>  I will be giving this one (the acer aspire 2920) to my mom for her use
>  (basic email, chatting, photos etc) when I go home next week.
>  I plan to purchase a MacbookPro when I come back; I plan to burn all my
>  credit cards (I am unemployed right now :) ) to get an MBP.
>  I recall you had managed to install some Nevada build on it.
>

>  How was your experience on it?
>  Were you able to scroll and right click using multi-tap as in OSX? Did
>  wireless etc work out of the box?
>  Which build of Nevada did you use?

I tried build 81.
Out of the box: Video.

Drivers needed for : Wireless and Ethernet

What didn't work : audio.

What I didn't try yet: usb camera

What I know won't work right now: bluetooth.

>
>  Could you please share your experience with it?
>

I'm going to follow this thread with build 86 (which I'm about to burn
onto a DVD next).

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=56995&tstart=15

I'll write in with my review on this tomorrow.

-- Ram