The differences between the two is CPU/MB speed, a little HD space,  
Gigabit vs 10/100, better graphics card, optional dual video adapter,  
better display (both iBooks are 1024x768), extra Firewire 800, built-in  
bluetooth, the mousewheel-on-the-trackpad-with-two-fingers feature  
(wheee), and of course style.

If any one of those are killer must-have features, then get the  
Powerbook.  Otherwise stick with the iBook.  I needed a portable web  
development platform with a UNIX terminal and a nice long battery, so all  
of those extras are pretty much meaningless for me, and I planned on doing  
serious stuff with my laptop.  NB: There's a 3D game called Nanosaur on my  
iBook, it's quite fancy on the graphics, and it runs fine, so in case  
that's anywhere in your killer feature list, I don't think that should  
count towards the powerbook.  Video editing and Maya 3D modeling probably  
would.

I got my iBook with a few extras, namely an additional 512MB and a 60G HD,  
also bluetooth and wireless card (yes, you actually get a checkbox for  
that).  That brought the price up a bit, almost the same as the starting  
price for a powerbook.

In either case, you get a UNIX box on which you can both ./configure,  
make, make install and just plug-n-play any device you'd like.  Some  
people have their own killer commercial app like Quicken, bigger vendors  
will always cater to Macs.

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--Alexander
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