is 12" G4 Powerbook good starter laptop for school age children
I have an 7 yro grandson who is very interested in exploring the computer skills he learns at school. He goes to a parochial school that uses Macs. So I'd prefer to get him an Apple for home, instead of a PC. Since he's still young, and all boy, I'd rather get him a good moderately-priced small used laptop to start off with. I've been researching early PowerBooks and thought a later version 12" G4 would make him a nice netbook-style beginner laptop. The 2005 versions had built-in wifi, larger hard drives, and either combo or superdrives. These have aluminum cases. Do you feel they're reliable and modern enough for someone this age? Any comments and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.5)