The difference is worth it.

My wife had a 10GB iBook 500mhz that came with 9.x - used it for a year then I upgraded it to OS X WHAT A DIFFERENCE !!!. Faster, better, more intuitive, easy to network it (OS 9.x could be a right PITB in switching networking mode from dial to to wi-fi).

Later I had it upgraded to a 40GB hard disk. Now she has a G4 Powerbook & the old iBook is (mine mine mine aha!!!).

It is a very useful part of the home PC reptoire :-)

Cheers

Doug Marker