My first Apple laptop was a white dual USB IBook I purchased in late 2001. I used it daily until May, 2006 when I became the proud owner of a Macbook.
The IBook was pretty much toast by then, a problem with the logic board rendered it useless. I was at the Apple Store in St. Louis and took it in to see if it could be salvaged and for around $200 it was resurrected. It became a backup for when my wife or I needed to get on the Internet but the other one was using the Macbook. Then came our IMac in the summer of 2008 and the IBook went untouched for months.
Then one day my wife said she wanted to buy a portable DVD player so our 3 year old could watch movies while she watches TV at night.
It hit me, the IBook. I plugged it in, popped Finding Nemo into the DVD drive, and viola, my wife was free from forced kiddie moving watching at night, and my son had his first Mac.
He can even work the space-bar to pause and play at will now, and he's pleased as a pig in mud to have a computer just like his dad.
Vive le IBook!
