well, i finally found myself a *working* iBook this afternoon. I have no idea how to find the spcs on it, but i think it's 800mhz with 256mb of ram...
to tell you the truth, i don't even know if this matters anymore. from what i can understand thus far, it kinda gets laggy if i firefup firefox and thunderbird at the same time, and it goes right to sleep when i close the ocver, but takes a little while to come back (kinda irritating).
software is surprisingly easy to install (have yet to uninstall it), and iTunes doesn't seem to pick up my PM iTunes library. i guess i'll post more as i find out...