On Monday I get a call from my Mom. A friend of her's just bought a new MacBook and needed all her files transfered off her old iBook. She was gonna pay some guy $75 to do it for her, so my mom called to see if I'd be willing to do it. It's an easy enough process, so I said sure. She brought the two laptops by Monday and left them for me to do it. I asked Mom to ask her what she was planning to do with the old iBook, since I'd be willing to buy it if the price was right.

First off let me say how much I love the MacBook. Yes, the shiney screen is annoying (especially since it picks up finger smudges like mad), but it looks simply lovely. The keyboard was a little weird, but very usable. It booted up insanely fast, and everything ran nice a quickly. iPhoto and iTunes both launched almost instantly, I was very impressed.

So I slaved the iBook in Target Disk Mode and moved all her documents, music and pictures over. Whole process took about half an hour since I had to do imports into iTunes/iPhoto (she already had some stuff on the new MacBook, so i couldn't just overwrite the libraries).

Tuesday afternoon Mom comes by to pick them back up and drops a nice bomb on me. "Nicole says you can keep the iBook."

!!!!!!!!!!!
!!! \o/ !!!
!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been needing a new laptop for so long. The old iBook G3 that I usurped from Mom years ago has been gradually slipping into convalescence. The battery is completely dead, the display has issues, the CD-ROM wont read anymore, and it's horribly low on RAM. I can't run more then 4-5 programs at a time, and MP3 playback stutters under basic load. Forget playing video on it.

This new iBook is a G4 1.4Ghz with a 14" screen, the last of the iBook line. Fitting that I would go from the first iBook to the last. I'm now using it at work, I've retired the old G3 to my closet until the day I need some kind of backup. I'm thinking I might wipe it and load OS9 onto it.

/cheer