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As a macintosh tech, the question to ask yourself is how much abuse do you think you are going to deal your laptop? The iBook is a much more rugged case being plastic, the only problem is that since it is white it really shows dirt badly (my sister has a 14 inch and she used AJax to clean the palm rest when it got dirty, not my first choice) The new powermacs are more sturdy than the original versions which I have and after 4 years it is beginning to show its age. I personally love my powerbook and would not trade it for an ibook for any reason because of the screen size (think PS and Dreamweaver pallets out the wazoo), but if you plan on being rough with it, an ibook might be the way to go.
For what its worth since you are using a second monitor, the iBook does sound to be more what you are looking for, in this case the powerbook is more of a desktop replacement, and I use it as such.
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