Thank you everyone very much for your advice. I feel a lot better about my future purchase.
I think 768 MB would be adequate for me except for the fact I will have to run Access 2000 in Virtual PC at times. This would be additional insurance that it works smoothly. I would try to do this as infrequently as possible. It would also be placed on an external firewire hard drive. Does anybody have experience with Virtual PC on an IBook? I would probably use Windows 98 (for lower hardware demands) and Office 2000 for the version of Access I need...
The next sentence many of you may find kind of disturbing (but some may find funny). Windows 2000 runs very smoothly on a dual G5 Power PC. We did it to test Access 2000 in Virtual PC. But I would never, ever, ever buy a Mac just to run Microsoft Windows.
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