I've been using an iBook for a year now and I can tell you, it will be a downer after a while. I'm a software developer (java, perl) and I initially bought the box to be a test bed for an app. When I first got the the box, it was great. I enjoyed the novelty of a different OS. After a while though, I began to realize just how slow the 800MHZ iBook was in comparison to my other boxen (IBM Thinkpad R32 w/XP Pro, and Compaq Evo 1500 w/Suse 9. If I had it to do all over again, I would buy a Powerbook. I use the Eclipse IDE for my Java work and it allows me to build, and test my work on all three platforms easily, but for now, I'll just use my little iBook for testing only. I still love it though.

Having read over 1000 comments to this posting - I guess it it time for me to jump into the fray. I did research in the 1980's about the relationship of deaths by car and gun - cars are more dangerous. I taught my children (oldest now 30) that you do not drive a car but control lethal, deadly force - they all 3 have good driving records. The pen is mightier than the sword. I really don't care who you vote for - as long as you think before voting. I wish that the constitution required all voters to be armed with lethal weapons at the time they vote. If I can not trust you with a gun - should I trust you to vote for President (atom bombs, etc.)?