No, I'm just wanting a good, poratble machine for podcasting (and writing of course, but I can do that with anything), with good storage and DVD burning capability. Note that I am not a hardware geek, and much further debate will leave me shuffling my feet and complaining, "I dunno" to much further questioning.

I talked it over with the Apple guy, he recommended the lower end powerbook over the iBook. Perhaps he was trying to upsell me. I have no idea.

Oh yeah, the ibook and the mini do not have recording capabilites; you have to buy an external sound card. I do know what one.