Man, don't get me started about autocorrect. 
Ah well, to be clear I didn't mean to badger you too much. It's just a thing we've seen before where someone ends up spending too much money on a PPC Mac because they're not really clear about its unsuitability for certain "you sorta expect a computer to do that these day tasks" and, well, sadness ensues. By all means for what you're doing if you see a cheap PB go ahead and pick it up, the screen *is* a big improvement over the 1024x786 checkerboard of an iBook, but if you're not seeing anything for fun money I'd say pass until you do.
We could probably start a whole new thread about the early Intel MacBooks (and Pros); my shorthand contribution to it would be, well, approach with caution. Honestly with few exceptions all the pre-Unibody Pros are sorta lemons to some degree or another. The 2006 models had some notorious build quality bugs, there were all the issues with the Nvidia-equipped models, and none of them age particularly well. (Their physical construction is basically the same as that of the Aluminum G4s but they're even thinner, so they dent, they bend, they warp, and I've also encountered some annoying material quality issues with them. For instance, I had to tear the "dust curtain" around the DVD drive slot out of my 2008 15" model because the material became stiff and brittle enough to interfere with disk ejection.) Overall not super impressed. They were certainly better than your Acer when they were new, I guess, but there's been a lot of water under the bridge since then.
Ah well, to be clear I didn't mean to badger you too much. It's just a thing we've seen before where someone ends up spending too much money on a PPC Mac because they're not really clear about its unsuitability for certain "you sorta expect a computer to do that these day tasks" and, well, sadness ensues. By all means for what you're doing if you see a cheap PB go ahead and pick it up, the screen *is* a big improvement over the 1024x786 checkerboard of an iBook, but if you're not seeing anything for fun money I'd say pass until you do.
We could probably start a whole new thread about the early Intel MacBooks (and Pros); my shorthand contribution to it would be, well, approach with caution. Honestly with few exceptions all the pre-Unibody Pros are sorta lemons to some degree or another. The 2006 models had some notorious build quality bugs, there were all the issues with the Nvidia-equipped models, and none of them age particularly well. (Their physical construction is basically the same as that of the Aluminum G4s but they're even thinner, so they dent, they bend, they warp, and I've also encountered some annoying material quality issues with them. For instance, I had to tear the "dust curtain" around the DVD drive slot out of my 2008 15" model because the material became stiff and brittle enough to interfere with disk ejection.) Overall not super impressed. They were certainly better than your Acer when they were new, I guess, but there's been a lot of water under the bridge since then.