[mikester]

I was actually thinking of posting something like this yesterday.

I am a UNIX/Network Security Administrator. I do a Looooot of UNIX work so at work I had them get an iBook for my use. I also have an XP Pro Desktop with VMware running various different OS's. THAT setup alone makes it unnessasary for me to have that iBook and the fact is that it is slow as all get out compared to other laptops I've seen.

It's an iBook G4 ~933Mhz (or something like that) with a 40GB HDD and 256 MB RAM, DVD/CDRW Combo and for the most part it works for me. It has failed completely due to hardware twice and been replaced by apple care. The OS works well and is very UNIX friendly to use - building packages on it has not been much of a problem. I certainly care for it more than I do redhat but I still think Solaris is better.

My problem is that it's failed on my twice and resulted in replacement - I'm quite tired of restoring it to what I need. If it were a windows laptop running some variety of linux in VMware I could restore it by copying one file to the machine.

If it breaks once more - it's gone.

I also want to try to dual boot linux on it but I haven't found a distro that will install on this thing yet.