I was just at Compusa and they had Ibooks on display and in stock(14 inch).
Yes the Ibooks do have fans, allthow they hardly ever run............ i leave mine on 24/7 and my fan runs about 30 minutes at most out of that 24 hours.....(normally during games) the fan tends u run more often if u have it on something soft like a blanket....
I have a 600mhz 12 inch with 640 megs of ram, my man compant about it is i cant play Warcraft 3 with Video card in it allthow u can with the new one o well.....persoanlly i think that the 14 inch ibook is really ugly and its huge i got his computer because itwas SMALL if i wanted soemthin that size i could of gotten the SMALLER Tibook...
The powermac and emac inventories are also normal (700-1200 units). The imac 15 inch invertories are around 300. In the past numbers below 300 have shown they are not replenshing the inventory.
My local CompUSA has plenty of iBooks, all four models (as well as Powermacs, iMacs, eMacs, and TiBooks). (My local is Milwaukee... wondering if it has to do with an Apple store opening up soon, trying to stay in compatition...)
Call me crazy but all you people complaining about how if they put a a g4 in the ibook that'd have ot make the enclosure bigger are wrong. If i remember correctly there is a little thing call the TiBook that has a G4 in it with a fan that is about an inch think.
Well yes, you can make it thinner with a metal exterior as metal dissipates heat better than plastic. Of course you feel it in your lap. Though there is even a lap heatpad you can get for the TiBook.