Last Saturday, after my father returned from Poland, we bought a new laptop-- Apple MacBook MB061ZP/A. It is an Intel-based MacBook, and after some messing around I finally managed to boot Fedora 7 on it. Many thanks to http://tripleboot.is2.byuh.edu/ and Indranil Das Gupta for their help.
The installation was smooth and things have been working fine till now. However I have not yet tried out every piece of hardware on the notebook. Will post a detailed report later.
More pictures here.