Questions on upgradeing my ibook further

Hi Kanari here! I'm close to geting a job and once I do I was hoping to get a 128 or 512 mb ram stick from welovemacs.com. once that's done i was going to find a cd of panther either on craigslist or on ebay. I've already updated my os to 9.2.2 and the firmware as high as it can go. The thing is that writing is a big part of my usage of my computer and i've been using word 97/98 (i don't know which!) I'm willing to buy appleworks 6 if something equivilent is not installed with panther. One more thing before I post is there a usb wi-fi reciver availible for panther/clamshell. Thanks for any future advice i hope that it'll be helpful.

If you have a firewire iBook 366/466mhz, Appleworks 6 can be found on your iBook software installion disc (additional software). Older iBooks came with Appleworks 5
You can use Appleworks 6 with OS9 or OSX (after installing the update)
http://support.apple.com/downloads/AppleWorks6_2_9_forMac
An alternative to Office 2004 is Office v.X which was the first version built for OSX.

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