Before you get laughed off the planet, they are PowerBooks and not MacBooks. It really irks me when I'm looking for a PowerBook and an "Intel PowerBook" shows up. Same for a "MacBook with a G4 processor."
I'm not mad, upset, or trying to be a jerk about it, but it causes a lot less headaches when you use the right words.
I was at a flea market today and looking in one booth that usually has some Apple stuff(generally ridiculously overpriced). He told me that he had a "14.1" i7" that he would go get out of his car if I was interested. I then spotted a 15" Aluminum laptop of some sort, although it was positioned in such a way that I couldn't tell if it was a Powerbook or Macbook Pro. I asked him about it, and his first question was what I would pay for it
. In any case, it was an early '08 Macbook Pro with a badly swelled battery and he couldn't get it to power up. I talked him down to a $100 based on this. It was really nice cosmetically and I figured it was worth that even if parted out. I brought it home, put a(bad) factory battery I had lying around in it, and am typing this post from it.
Somewhere along the way, he mentioned that he also had a "iMac Tower" for sale. I went over and looked at it, and it was a dual 1.8 G5. Admittedly it did have 8gb of RAM and a 1Tb HDD, but I was afraid to ask the price on it
. I don't need another G5 anyway, especially with the Quad on the way.
BTW, as for the subject computer of this post, there were(I think) 5 different models of Powerbook G3, not counting individual variations. Offhand, there was the Kanga, Wallstreet, Wallstret II(PDQ), Lombard, and Pismo. Most of them are fairly desirable. I've been trying to fill out a set, although it hasn't been a high priority for me.