RIP, iBook G4

I think my laptop is finally dead.
It's been a long, slow process...

I bought the thing in early 2004 after a particularly lucrative freelancing assignment, and after working for years on a desktop I loved the freedom afforded to me by my new toy. Suddenly I could work out of the Green Bean, Ham's or anywhere else with a wireless signal — which turned out to be fortuitous when my daughter was born and my home office became a purple nursery with pictures of princesses on the walls.
But it's seen a steady decline. About a year in the CD reader stopped reading discs — there's still one trapped in there — and then the battery stopped holding a solid charge. Two summers ago a glitch in the video something-or-other caused it to freeze up at the worst times. And my kids have tripped over the charging cord so many times that it only works if I prop it into a plug with my briefcase.
Now it won't boot up — do people still say "boot up?" — and the Apple load screen just stays there while that little wheel spins and spins.
I have written hundreds of thousands of words on this machine and earned a pretty tidy sum with it over the years. And now it's dead.
Goodbye old friend. You will be missed.
Related: I'm in the market for a Mac laptop.