So, I decided I was better off selling my two Titanium PowerBook G4 1GHz units and moving to the current top PoweBook model, the 1.67GHz. Not willing to ever pay full price for a Mac again, I periodically peeked in on Apple’s refurbished unit site. About midnight on Friday, May 13th (no, I am not superstitious, obviously) I saw one pop up in the inventory. I snatched it right up, happy to have a US$2300 unit for US$2000. It only had a single 512MB RAM stick and the base 80GB drive, but I could swap out the high-end 100GB drive I had put in one of the TiBooks.

The unit arrived today and I fired it up, letting it boot into OS X. I ran the System Profiler and was pleasantly surprised. This baby had a 1GB stick and the 100GB drive. I gleefully hopped over to the Apple site to find that these upgrades would have cost me an additional US$450 if I had ordered this new. It’s nice when it works out like that; the last refurb I bought had 2 256MB sticks instead of 1 512MB stick.

I am looking forward to getting my Debian stuff migrated over and finding out what doesn’t work yet on this newest model 8^).