Best place to get Clamshells?

My fiance was a PC gal, but her PC died awhile back, so she's been using my B&W g3 for her work. She's come to love the Mac OS, and when we started talking about her getting a new computer, she looked around, and stumbled upon the Clamshells, and is now somewhat set on getting one. >.>
Okay, so I looked on eBay, and that was about the only place I could find Clamshells for sale; however, most run ~$400, which is not a fair price. All she needs is a laptop that has word processing, Wireless, and can run DVDs. Some of the Clamshells can do this, and I would like to know if there are any non-eBay places that sell the Clamshells? If so, where?

Hi Lezard,
Brian alluded to the point that DVD playing Clamshells are becoming collectors items, hence they are fetching greater prices at auction sites such as eBay.
An alternative is to locate a Clamshell that has built-in Firewire, but no DVD drive. There are third party DVD drives available that can be subsequently installed from places such as:
http://www.wegenermedia.com/ibookcdrwhome.htm
Note that Wegenermedia do the installation themselves.
If you are very handy, you could use this guide:
http://www.pbfixit.com/Guide/49.0.0.html
to install the drive yourself - note that you will probably lose the ability to keep the cool faceplate for the disc loading tray.
You need to do your sums on this one - how much the mod would cost you plus how much you would be prepared to oay for a Firewire Clamshell without DVD against a DVD capable Clamshell.
Cheers!
Karl

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