I recently bought a used iBook G4 from craigslist for $75. It is a 1.2 Ghz G4 w/ 768mb ram, 30gb hard drive, combo drive (that still works!), airport extreme running Mac OSX 10.3.9 Panther. The seller thought his iBook G4 had a defective airport extreme card and told me the wireless was finicky and goes out a lot. What he didn't know was that he didn't set up the networking settings properly-- he needed to specify the dns servers in the network settings and it will be ok. He was tech illiterate and sold it to me for cheap-- one man's loss is another man's gain!
When i took it home, i wiped the hard drive and did an erase and install of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 and installed iLife 09, VLC 2.03, MacTubes, LibreOffice, AuroraFox, TenfourFox, Ultima 3, and Power64.
I also ordered a 1gb ram stick from OWC for about $31.
My iBook G4 is truly the workhorse! They are great for everyday usage and great to lug around for places you don't want to take an expensive MacBook or iPad. In my honest opinion, the iBook G4 is the best alternative to a netbook.
If you want to get an iBook G4, i recommend getting ones from 1.07Ghz and up because these iBook G4s can use a 1gb ram stick and these are faster. These machines could max out @ 1.25 Gb ram or 1.5 Gb ram.
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