iBook is dead, long live MacBook

Finally! A worthy successor to my iBook G3. I figured that the iBook’s successor wouldn’t be out much later. How much later? I don’t really know, the whole Intel transition for Apple is an ongoing matter that I’m not privvy to know until it’s public knowledge through official debuts, press releases, media events, so on. 
 
These MacBooks look pretty cool with their black or white plastics and built-in iSight cameras. They’re about an inch or more wider than their predecessors. I hope to see one in the next few weeks. Then I know I’ll want one if it fits comfortably in the backpack Somara made for me (it has an inner pocket that used to store my 5300c, now my iBook yet it was too small for the PowerBook G3). 
 
Some may say the 60G hard drives are rather puny if you want to install Boot Camp on it. For me, a portable is an electronic dayplanner, checkbook, ledger, rolodex, correspondence device and web browser. In an emergency it’s a photo editor. I can’t think of any Windows-based piece of software I must have on it to carry out these functions. It’s the other reason why I dismiss my friends and co-workers’ whining over the video-chip set being underwhelming on any portable. Desktops and PS2s are for games, portables are for productivity.