Reply #89: No -- It's a Lucent. [View All]

[Atlant]

> Sure you can upgrade peripherals but there are less manufacturers thus
> variations of models (i.e. that WiFi card had to have been an Apple)
> that you can choose from for that upgrade - less choice meaning you're
> probably getting most of your stuff from Apple.

Sorry, but nothing I added to this PowerBook has an "Apple" logo on it.

The RAM came from Developer Depot and is two perfectly ordinary,
low-profile 256MB SODIMMs; I have no idea who the chip vendor was.
I did buy it at MacWorld, though. :-)

The disk is a Hitachi (nee IBM) IDE drive.

The IEEE-802.11b card is a Lucent, one of several that we interchange
among our several PCs and this Mac. It was supported by MacOS/9, but
for MacOS/X, I installed a public-domain driver.

The Firewire and USB cards come from a third-Party Mac vendor, but I
doubt they contain anything Mac-specific; there were certainly no
drivers required in the MacOS/X environment; if I cracked them open,
I'd probably find industry-standard CardBus-to-USB and CardBus-to-
FireWire bridge chips.

Now that PCIbus, ATA, USB, and FireWire (IEEE-1394) have become so
popular, the concept of Mac-specific peripherals is fading fast.

Atlant