Awesome design. The PowerPC G3 handles almost as much as the G4s, AltiVec and Core Animation excluded.

Nice keyboard. Decent screen. AirPort (WLAN).
Great battery life!

Decent graphics card. However, lid gets scratched easily.
Easily develops the Logic Board Failure of Death that also manages to burn a huge hole in your wallet.

12 inch model has low resolution - only 1024x768.

Not supported by Leopard - even the 1 GHz model is unsupported. Great value, a good budget notebook.

All,

We've been Apple iBook G3 users for years and have several laptops networked in our office, with a few lonely PCs. They all work fine, but the Mac, overall, is far better than the PCs.

We are a print shop so graphics, and handling large files are important and the Mac does it fine. However, the PC is not horribly behind and have a PC server for a few applications, too. We also use PCs for a few business (non graphic) apps, and they're hanging in there.

Bottom line, however, we'ed prefer the Mac, for ALL applications, and especially graphics. We'ed keep out accounting on Mac exept for the fact that all the outside accounting firms, and the one we deal with, are on PC. So be it, and we down load the data to them using (ugh) a PC. But it works.

Herman