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Strengths: Beautiful design, compliments Ipods, for creative types, good value, exceptional keyboard appearance and feel, no crashing of operating system, extremely portable, crisp bright screen
Weaknesses: Slightly warm over left palm rest but not uncomfortably so, less software available than for win users
Summary: This is my first Apple, the G4 12"Powerbook. The design gets compliments from everyone who sees it; it works better with my iPod than my Toshiba laptop did. I easily transferred my music library to the mac by attaching a Cat 5 ethernet cable and the mac did the rest: detected all the network settings and I needed no additional software to transfer my files. Of course you can only transfer things that you can open on a a mac like word files, music, etc. Otherwise WIN operating programs that open with .exe need Virtual PC to work on it. I recommend maxing out your ram , getting the Airport extreme card 54 g backward compatible to 802.1 b, getting the superdrive which burns CDs and DVDs, The slot for the superdrive prevents any damage to the CD drawer, which in my opinion is great. The screen is good enough to watch DVDs but if you do extensive video editing you probably want the 15 or 17" Powerbook. I thought the 17" was too big for portability (face it it's a surfboard) but it does have the same keyboard layout as the 12". The 15", while portable, sports ugly black keys that aren't as nice in appearance or touch asthe 12 or 17". Support at Apple is personable and knowledgable. Their website has a wealth of support too. I am in heaven at the iTunes store, the iPod works so much better on the mac system. The OS X 10 has never crashed. Apple deserves their profit this quarter for fine consumer products. Buy yourself this present, it's a delight to open the package - apple rocks! - former Wintel geek
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