IBook G3 & iWork

I am starting college on Monday and I have a gliding instructor job coming up in the summer. As a result, I have been looking at getting an iBook to make my time more productive and portable. I want it to run Panther and need it to run Microsoft Office 2004 and iWork. With regards to iWork, I only need it to display the presenations through a projector, I can use my eMac for the creating part.
What kind of an iBook should I be looking for on eBay? Minimum iWork system spec requirements are 500MHz G3 and 128mb RAM, is this a fairy tale or realistic minimum system reqs?
Laviator
eMac G4, 1.25 GHz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   DVD RW combo drive
eMac G4, 1.25 GHz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   DVD RW combo drive
eMac G4, 1.25 GHz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   DVD RW combo drive

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
A 500 MHz iBook usually has a 10 GB (actually 9.3 GB), which can really cramp your style.
Also, I would recommend maxing out the RAM with a 512 MB chip which would bring it up to 640 MB (or 576 MB if you happened to get one of the earliest ones with only 64 MB on the logic board).
Actually, if you can see your way to waiting for a week, MacWorld Expo is in San Francisco next week. If new models are announced, you may be able to pick up a new G4 iBook at a nice discount. They are only $999 right now, and if you buy from MacMall they offer a free memory upgrade (you pay an installation fee) and free printer and bag (after rebates). This may decline substantially if new models are announced at MacWorld on Tuesday.
A 500 MHz iBook is nearly a 5-year-old model. It was manufactured two years before Panther was released and three years before MS Office 2004. If you can find one that has at least a 20 GB hard drive, it may work all right for you if you upgrade the RAM, but it won't be nearly as nice as a newer model.
There's another thing to consider. Do you want wireless connectivity? If so, and you still want to go with a G3 iBook, you probably need to hunt for one with the AirPort card already installed because the newer (faster and cheaper) AirPort Extreme card won't work in the G3 iBooks (but does work in all G4 iBooks). Apple no longer sells the original AirPort card that works in a G3 iBook, and they are getting scarce (and expensive).
You may also want to consider the fact that iBook G3 (Dual USB) computers have had some problems with the logic board. Enough dual USB G3 iBooks suffered from this problem that Apple began the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program in January of 2004. The program covers G3 (Dual USB) iBooks that are less than three years old. If you are buying one that is older than that, you need to be a bit wary because someone may be trying to get rid of one with a bad logic board.
The average lifespan of a lithium-ion battery is two to three years, so you need to think about the cost of a replacement battery if you are going to want to use it on battery power (or buy one whose battery has been replaced recently).
I hope you find what you're looking for. We have three used iBooks, ourselves, and really enjoy them a lot. But I paid over $1000 for my first 500 MHz iBook (used--on eBay--640 MB of RAM, AirPort card installed, Combo drive) in the fall of 2002, so that $999 for a new one (AirPort Extreme is included in the new ones) is looking very good to me. And you would get Tiger with it, too.

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