Buying an Ibook G4 for christmas

Hi I intend to buy a ibook g4 for my girlfriend this christmas. I appologise now in that I havent read much in this forum but I need some quick answers to most likely commonly asked questions as I want to buy tommorow if poss im sure you understand. Now I know ... nothing...well at least about macs or ibooks (im a pc man at the moment). So heres my q's
1) Do they have 801.11b/g and will it be compatible with my belkin wireless router and smoothwall (firewall) setup i.e. dhcp etc...
2) can you run open office?
3) As she will use it for office stuff too, can you move word/excel docs between pc and mac via a memory stick?
4) what should i be looking out for for PC / Mac file compatabilty
Thanks in advance all, I do appologise for looking lazy but time is of the essance.
Neil

Hi TheMoog,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
1) Yes, She should be completely compatible with the Belkin Wireless router. For more information go here
2) To be honest I don't know about the program, but this site says you can.
3) Yes she can defiantly use MS Office on her computer and be able to move it over to PC and vice versa. I don't use MS Office except for Excel. I am a huge supporter of iWork
4) No you shouldn't really be worried about PC/Mac compatibility because there are so many ways to change info. The biggest thing that people have a problem with I find is games. You can check past posts for more info.
I hope that helps,
Jon
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