@Valan,
When it is time to upgrade the iBook to a new Mac, you will be very pleased to know that Amiga emulation flys on the Intel based Macs using WinUAE, AmigaForever and AmiKit. A very pleasant experience and I love having a fast and very beautiful and capable Amiga laptop (at last!). :-D
Does anyone know the author of these articles (not just his name, I mean who he is and what his background is and why he decided to write such a long history)? He has really done a wonderful job of researching the history (or remembering it from personal experience). The little details that are not generally known, that he mentions in several places in the story are very interesting.
I too hope for several more installments of the Amiga history and I applaud Arstechnica for publishing them. I have long been a reader of their site and have used one of their build-it-yourself guides to put together my Son's AMD PC budget gaming machine.