I finally got around to upgrading my iBook to use MacOS X 10.1, and boy am I happy. It's simply better. Faster and ... just better!!!! There are subtle changes made to the dock, the top bar, and preference tweakings, and they just all seem to be in place... If you haven't checked out MacOS X 10.1 yet, check it out!!. To top all that, international support is SUPERB!!! They have all the language encodings, input method editors that I could wish for and the mail readers can read different encodings fine!!! You can see that I'm excited... ;) I am a little bummed out about the fact that they, for some reason, decided not to inlude Chinese and Korean input support without the localized version of the OS... Soembody explain this to me...

Oh! I should let you in on one issue I had upgrading. So my iBook came unpartitioned, and it seems like there maybe some sort of a firmware issue with my iBook.. The 10.1 installer would not let me select a destination drive... so I had to use Disk Utility at the start of the upgrade to partition my harddrive, wipe out MacOS 9.1 and MacOS X then do the upgrade... so keep that in mind iBook users!