I love the Pismo, it's a great little machine and with its 500mhz G4, I manage to get most of my writing and photshop work done without issue. The 12" G4 iBook is a lot quicker and the screen is great, I think if i dont find a decent powerbook, I'll just keep using the iBook for the more demanding stuff.

In regards to the Acer running slow to bloatware, I've been thought this machine and removed most if not all of the Acer bloatware and it still runs dog slow. I'm not the only person to experience this, reading reviews online, many of them mention the performance isn't groundbreaking. Seriously surfing on the acer isn't much quicker then on my iBook. At least the iBook as a much better keyboard and touchpad, that doesn't leave me wanting to pull off my fingers. I'm currently typing on the Acer now and it's driving me bonkers. Had I been able to do more then try finger typing in the shop, I would never have opted for this laptop, as it's dreaful for typing and the trackpad is £$"$%.

If bloatware slows this machine down this easy, I cant imagine running Ubuntu or the lighter less resource hungry Xubuntu would help much. Running photoshop via wine would be painful.