Thinking of buying an iBook.

[TSE]

http://ames.craigslist.org/sys/2683991146.html There is the ad.

I am looking at buying it to install Mac OS 9 and run classic games from Macintosh Garden/watch DVDs in the kitchen/listen to .mp3s with iTunes 2.

Does this run Mac OS 9 natively? Are these iBooks generally reliable?

 

[bigeasy_uk]

I'm not sure about the reliability of this model but I know some ibooks have issues with the graphics chip coming loose from the logic board.
As for OS's, it shipped with 9.2.1 and 10.1.2 and supports up to tiger.

 

[max¥¥]

I had that one, i never suffered from the traditional gpu failer (rather i fried the chip while ocing it)
without me being stupid it was a rock solid laptop and it ran os9 grate

 

[Goftrey]

I've also owned one before, it had the backlight screen issue that so many of these suffered from... But if it's still going now it'll probably never suffer from that issue.

I think they're solid, fast'ish machines that natively run OS 9 so that answers your question, BTW, that ad is a great price for one of them.

Also that model would have 16mb VRAM, just for reference

Definitely a good buy