Yeah, I'm not sure where this idea that they were "slow" comes from. They had construction quality and design issues, but they were lightning fast compared to any G4 when running native software. They could get a little sluggish running old programs under Rosetta, I guess, but "sluggish" is a relative term.

They *would* sometimes slow down if they were overheating, which wasn't that rare of an occurrence, but even throttled they could probably outdo a Powerbook. (I held onto my Powerbook for reliability reasons, not performance.)