I've been enjoying my new PowerBook for a few days now. It's certainly everything I hoped it would be.
The only major strikes against it so far are minor fiddly little nitpicky things like Terminal.app not playing well with multi-pane curses windows, and selecting text.
Oh, and that it has twice locked up solidly and suddenly from -- I believe -- overheating, but only while running an otherwise promising looking game. The third-party temperature monitor says the insides have been pushing 146°F, which seems a trifle too warm for comfort.
I do really miss having a FocusFollowsMouse windowmanager, but this Desktop Manager gives me my virtual workspaces back, at least.
The dock bar fits so much better on the side than the bottom. The 'genie' effect is stupid. Why does 'font smoothing' default set to the 'CRT' value instead of the 'LCD' value on a laptop? Figuring out that the function keys aren't actually function keys until you hold down the 'function' button took me forever to figure out. Glow-in-the-dark keys quickly soothed my frustration, though.
This interface between ssh and keychain should not have had to have been a third-party utility; come on, Apple, why don't you launch user sesssions under an ssh-agent, at least.
This keyboard remapper gave me back my control key where it belongs, but doesn't seem able to disable the toggling of the capslock light, which is somewhat distracting.
It will take me forever to get used to an application still being open without having any windows to display.
Step one when importing shared media servers' contents into iTunes: turn off 'copy to local drive' option. Thanks for trying, iTunes, but that archive is bigger than the drive you reside on.
This fancy eyecatching bag (in yellow and orange at least) seemed to be a decent choice, with enough room for more than just the laptop itself.
And this.. uh.. cozy, I suppose you could call it, doesn't seem essential but I had to get one anyhow.
I continue my hunt for a bluetooth mouse.
I almost bought a retro keyboard for 'docked' use, until I read that their shoddy internals can't generate some key combinations.