Stiftung Warentest is a independent german consumer organization which runs comprehensive tests on all sorts of products and publishes the results in the monthly magazine "test". The iBook Special edition stacked up very well against its Windows Multimedia notebook competitors - look at the (funny) Google translation. The iBook had the best battery life, and its rock solid construction and multimedia capabilities impressed the examiners. Disadvantages were the lack of a floppy disk drive and the small display.