I second what alan wrote plus add on its ultimate lightweight portability. It is truly so light as to make carrying it with books more practical at school as well as decent battery life to allow you to go cordless more places. I keep a charger in the motor home and house and it is ready to go without a case or anything when we go out of town, I just stow it in a drawer. Also does not get as warm when I retreat to my recliner to surf the web with my airport card. Valerie On 2/3/05 1:53 AM, "Allan Hise" <allan at hise.org> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Lucas Jacinto wrote: > >> why do we prefer the ibook over the powerbook? i was just wondering >> what you people have to say about this thought. > > For me, the iBook is a secondary computer for travelling, mostly, and it > costs much less. Since I have another machine for most of my at-home use, > I don't need the extra features that the powerbook offers. > > That was my reasoning. If it were going to be my main machine, I would > look harder at the powerbook, until my wife saw the extra cost, that is.