Should I consider buying used 15" Powerbook 1GZ?

Hi, all! I sure appreciate being able to get advice from such experienced Mac users, as I'm still sort a newbie. Just bought my first iMac Intel in Feb and I absolutely adore it! Now I'd like to buy a laptop to take with me on the road but can't afford a MacBook. I did find a good 15" Powerbook 1GZ on sale for under $800 with 60GB HD, 1GB RAM, etc. I was thinking of buying it and using this in conjunction w/my iMac for video stuff, emailing, surfing and Word. But when I looked at prices for a used Pentium M PC or new Intel Celeron cause they're so much cheaper (but they're not Macs!), I'm faced with whether to dole out alot of dough for an older Mac for compatibility (although I've heard it's a great investment) or a newer PC for the speed and the warranty. And now, of course, Windows can run on my iMac so the compatiblity could go the other way, too. Has anyone else gone through this? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
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I agree that seems like a fairly good deal, and while I vote for mac before a windows pc any day one thing would concern me. Its is fairly old, with a slow power pc processer. While it proabbly has many days of surfing the net and word documents, the video editing you mentioned will be significantly slower and likely a bit more frusterating as a result, when compared to your what sounds like new intel iMac. Just consider, the last power pc G4 powerbooks clocked out at I believe 1.66 Gz. So I guess that isn't a bad deal (although if you can get them to knock it down a few more hundred I would be all over it) recognized the speed factor and much more limited life span you will be acquiring as well.

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