Well, I'm sitting here in bed, with my new 12" Powerbook G4, connected to my wireless router in the other (unairconditioned) room, writing my first blog entry, and it's all that and a bag of chips indeed. Thanks to badgerbag for a) the inspiration and b) the recommendation of this particular setup (bed and all ;) )
I've never used a Mac before (well, except at badger's place), so it will take a little getting used to I'm sure, but so far everything has worked more-or-less as advertised--a few teething problems connecting the Airport Extreme wireless in the notebook to the 3rd party router since I wasn't prepared to shell out the bucks for the Airport Basestation or try to get it configured with my desktop Windows XP machine. The security still isn't working, so just anybody can attach, but at least I've locked down the configuration and have a firewall up so it shouldn't be too bad; given the fantastic insulation qualitiies of the walls in this old apartment building (no cell service inside, and even going as far as the living room drops the Airport connection from four bars down to one) I don't think that I'm going to find a bunch of freeloaders camped in the alley....