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Clamshell iBooks are capable of running OSX. Not spectacularly well (they are 366 or 466 MHz machines with limeted RAM), but still.

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While I maxed out on the RAM (a whopping 512MB), as it's one of the first clamshells it's limited by a 300Mhz processor. So no OSX for me. I don't mind, it's on 9.2 right now, which is about the most stable as they come. And with my homemade ssd (CF card with IDE adapter) it's blazing fast!

I remember running 10.1 and 10.2 on the 466 Mhz/320 MB RAM clamshell. Not very fast, but enough for ScummVM.

I didn't know that OSX does not run on the original iBook.

I think the highest OS X version you can install on a clamshell is 10.4. I have it on one of mine (with memory maxed out to 576 Mb). As you say, it's not real fast, but ScummVM works, and so do C64 and GBA emulators.

Scummvm under Linux Mint PPC should run faster than OSX.

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