I'm not saying I'd recommend a t43 to anyone as their main computer, I'd just say it's... surprisingly okay considering it's a ten year old computer running modern software. I'd wholeheartedly recommend it over a 1.67ghz G4 given it's 50 percent faster and the latter is distinctly lacking in up to date software options.
(The Pentium M CPU is almost single handedly responsible for killing the PPC Macintosh. It's astonishing how completely the 2003 crop of "Centrino" laptops put their G4 counterparts in the shade, and Apple never closed the gap. Just imagine being an Apple engineer in mid-2004 and learning that the intel roadmap was to go all in on slapping multiples of that core on a single die...)
(The Pentium M CPU is almost single handedly responsible for killing the PPC Macintosh. It's astonishing how completely the 2003 crop of "Centrino" laptops put their G4 counterparts in the shade, and Apple never closed the gap. Just imagine being an Apple engineer in mid-2004 and learning that the intel roadmap was to go all in on slapping multiples of that core on a single die...)