Newbie questions ... (yikes! :)

[Bruce Smith]

> > What about PCMCIA wireless NIC's?  I have
> > an old Orinoco silver which worked fine under x86 Linux, any chance it'll
> > work under PPC Linux?
> 
> Might - but there is no pcmcia on modern Apples

The new powerbooks claim to have:
"One PC Card/CardBus slot supporting one Type I or Type II card"
Is that PCMCIA or something else?

> If only Apple would not use touchpads, or at least touchpads with TWO buttons.
> This one drives me mad: they have an OS that NEEDS two buttons but they don't
> want to admit it :(

Yeah, I'll probably be using an external mouse a lot.  :-(

 - BS