I really lucked into the iBook that I recently purchased. I've been building PCs for many years now and have amassed quite a collection of spare parts, cases, monitors, etc.
Anyway, a co-worker who just bought the iBook about two months ago brought it to work to show to one of the other MAC users where I work (we are 98% PC-based, with only 2 MAC users)
I happened to poke my head around the cubicle and jokingly told her that if she knew anyone with a laptop that wanted to trade for a desktop PC to let me know, and I'd build one...
Didn't think anything of it, but about a week later she stopped into my cube and asked if I was serious. I said sure, and she said that she'd trade me her iBook for a desktop PC since she wasn't really able to do what she wanted on the iBook.
Whulp, I put $100 into the parts that I didn't already have, built a decent desktop (nForce2, 1.6GHz, 256MB, 40GB) and she traded me outright. The iBook, all manuals, software, carrying case, and even threw in the original packaging, right down to the little piece of foam wrap that the iBook was tucked into in it's box..
That's one of those "One-in-a-million" deals for sure...
Of course, being a PC person for so long (last time I used a MAC was a Quadra running OS 7.5.2) I was somewhat jaded. I always knew that the MAC had decent hardware, but the OS from my past experience really sucked... (and quite crash-prone)
I always likened it to having a speedboat sitting in a swimming pool... Lots of power, but you really can't do anything with it...
OS X has really made me re-think that... Knowing that it was based on NextStep (which is where I first started to learn Unix) really piqued my interest...
Now I love to take my little iBook with me everywhere... LOL!