Hey - i am strongly considering buying an iBook this holiday season (the 800MHz, 640MB Ram, 14.1", DVD/CD-RW). My questions: 1) has anyone used this model? is it worth the $1685 (educational price)? is it really as beautiful as it looks on apple.com? 2) in OS X, does it follow a typical unix file structure (such as /dev entries, /bin, /usr, etc...)? 3) how hard is it to set up YellowDog linux, OS 9, and OS X on a 40gb hard drive? 4) is yellowdog a good PPC linux distro? thanks!

1a) Not personally, but 1b) definitely and 1c) definitely. 2) Mac OS X *is* *nix. There are some minor differences, but the basic layout is pretty much identical to any of the open-source BSDs. 3) It's not, but why bother with YDL when you have a full *nix OS already that's far superior as far as support for that machine? Good commentary about this on ResExcellence.com. 4) Probably the only one I'd bother with. p