I am planning on buying a retail copy but I wanted to make sure it worked before going out and spending the money. I can't get it to boot even though I have done the coding for it to meet minimum requirements. I just wondered if the PPC side of things was taken off of most ditros to save space as a retail copy is Dual Layer. Just wondering. By the way, how much ram does your 12" iBook have? I have a 12" with only 256MB but an 800MHz CPU.