HDD and RAM upgrades were a breeze, though I wish Apple hadn't used torx screws to hold the HDD onto its bracket... you can get everything else apart with a Philips-head, why torx screws in that one spot?
I took the unit up to 512/30Gb (a HDD in my junkbox that I thought was 20Gb turned out to be 30). I won't be bothering with a CPU upgrade; this unit is more than fast enough for everything I need to do. DVD playback is smooth, SNES games play well, and it even runs my word processor [g].
The obscene luxury of a 14.1" LCD on a laptop is just wonderful. My only real usability problem with this PowerBook is that my typing speed is diminished because I'm not used to typing on a fullsize keyboard. My Thinkpad had an 85%-sized not-for-gaijin Japanese keyboard and very small wrist-rest.
Oh, and Apple needs to port iTunes to Windows NOW. It is so much more stable and easier to use than MusicMatch Jukebox (the software they ship for Windows iPods).
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