Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this directly, but the early Dual USB iBooks with Rage graphics did not suffer from the GPU problems that the later Radeon models did. In fact, except for failing IBM hard drives, they are quite reliable.

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This is very good to know!

I own one of those models. I am actually installing Tiger on it as I type.

Right now it has 640MB of RAM and later on I plan to install the Combo drive from my dead 600MHz Ibook with a failed GPU. I *might* swap out the 40GB HD if I have a larger one, otherwise I'll stick with what I have.

I loved these iBook's ever since the day they were released and always wanted, but never could afford, one of them.