I haven’t used my iBook during 2007. It’s an 800 MHz G3. Also, I don’t have a copy of 10.4 “Tiger” for it, and between the speed and the increasing degree to which it is isolated from the software I’d like to use, it just isn’t worth the effort. (This is with the exception of 10 minutes about 10 days ago when I convinced myself that the network was working but my Linux machine’s NIC wasn’t working.)

Anyway, this has changed now that the latest version of Ubuntu is out. Its support for the PowerPC architecture is awesome. (It’s much better than a couple of years ago, when I briefly tried Yellow Dog — which may also be better now; I wouldn’t know. I’m not slamming YD, just puffing Ubuntu.) I was most impressed that it just worked. I haven’t done a complete test of power management and other laptop-y functions, but most everything else appears to work out of box. Cool.

To be honest, I’d rather have a new Mac. (Like Tim.) My plan had been to sell the iBook and apply the $300 toward the cost of an iMac. But pending such time as I actually sell this one, I might as well be using it.