Apple's pictures make it look a little better than it really is. It's not that bloody shiny and perfect. The grainy pics I stuck up last year gave a more realistic impression.
On a related note, there appears to be a lack of detailed third-party reviews of the iBook G4 out there. Coming from PC land where every new product is reviewed and photographed in detail, I find this rather odd. On the other hand, most of the time these "reviews" amount to something that could be more suitably called "semi-critical hype", so it's not necessarily a bad thing if it forces you to resort to forums where you may find real complaints from real users instead of the fairy-land account from some reviewer who got the product as a freebie and only uses it for a day or two.
On a related note, there appears to be a lack of detailed third-party reviews of the iBook G4 out there. Coming from PC land where every new product is reviewed and photographed in detail, I find this rather odd. On the other hand, most of the time these "reviews" amount to something that could be more suitably called "semi-critical hype", so it's not necessarily a bad thing if it forces you to resort to forums where you may find real complaints from real users instead of the fairy-land account from some reviewer who got the product as a freebie and only uses it for a day or two.
