I've decided that I want to get an iBook. A small, portable version of my desktop that I can have around in the apartment and elsewhere. It needs an AirPort card, but I'm not sure if I need the CD-RW/DVD combo drive. We've got a CD-R burner that works just fine, and it's Firewire based so I can use it with the iBook. I really think the DVD is the only drive I need.

From what I've heard, MacOS X runs just fine on it, which is great, because that was the one thing holding me back. Especially now that 10.1 is available, I feel a lot more comfortable with the choice. I expect that there will be a speed bump of some sort by the time I'm ready to buy it. The 6 month mark is about the time the first rev of a product comes out from Apple. It was introduced May 7, so the rev should be at the end of the year, perhaps at MacWorld SF.

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