Re: iBook G4

Jari Oksanen <jari.oksanen@xxxxxxx> writes:
The only reason to get an iBook
is that you also want to try MacOS X.

I had three reasons for getting an iBook, and MacOS X was not one of
them (I actually never ran MacOS X on my iBook):

- I could get a US keyboard for it, but not for most other notebooks.

- It has a PPC CPU (with Linux-supported performance counters), which
is useful for the work I do.

- It was the cheapest 12"-laptop around (and there were rather few
offerings in that size).

- anton
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