My sister will get a 700 MHz iBook (the 12" option, of course). What I don't really understand is that the 14" machine is considered 'high end' at Apple. The smaller version makes much more sense to me, as the only thing that is *really* better on the bigger version is the better battery life, which is already good in the smaller version.
Of *course* the iBook becomes more similar feature wise to the TiBook. Time goes on. My hope was that the TiBook would already have hit the 1 GHz G4 at this time and the iBook would make use of the 1 GHz Sahara G3... Whenever you buy a computer, faster ones will appear sooner or later. And from my perspective (and Apple's, I'm sure) sooner would often be better. This would be good against the competition. Right now too many new users opt to buy a used machine, as they are still quite good compared to the new ones - and cheaper, of course.