Writing my ass! I just got a freebie graphite SE clamshell and I'm running Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Eudora, Safari, iTunes, Microsoft Word and 1 or 2 smaller apps at the same time and this thing is still chugging along nicely. You might get there a bit faster with the later iBook/PowerBooks but the clamshells seem to hold their own quite well, thank you very much! > >For those of us with the beautiful (ok, I KNOW that's controversial) >clamshells, these will always be great writing machines, if nothing >else. I love mine!