Although I never had to go through that with either of my two that I had over the years I have to say they are a personal favorite. They were great little computers and I even used to enjoy watching youtube with Mactubes till Google broke it. haha. I love writing on those or even the earlier G3 because they have great keyboards. I thought the chicklet style keyboards like every other PC laptop out there on my Macbooks were awful for writing on. And in all honesty I still prefer the G4 era Apple Pro or the Emac keyboards over the modern aluminum ones. The keys on the new ones are not meant for serious typing.