And let me tell you, the iBook does all these very well. The processor here is a 300MHz G3. It's plenty fast. What's important is that it's a G3, and therefore is ready for MacOS X, which will appear next year, and needs at least a G3 to run. It's plenty of processing power to do what the iBook was designed to do.
Performance is generally zippy.
One of the few less than amazing aspects is the woefully low RAM count. I'm sorry, Apple, but 32 megs just doesn't cut it. It isn't just a matter of not being able to run big programs. I'm talking running AOL's Instant Messenger, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, and my MP3 player all at once, most of which comes with the iBook, and which I typically like to have running all at once. Internet Explorer especially grinds the machine to a halt.