The Clamshell iBook was a commercial success. Apple sold 300.000 iBooks during the first weeks. The display component suppliers were not able to handle such demands, so displays of different manufacturers ...
The award-winnung german TV Comedy series Dr. Psycho - The Bad, The Coppers, My Wife and Me (2007 / 2008) by Ralf Husmann had a friendly and disheveled-looking main charcter (a bit like the ...
Sometimes you will find AirMac Cards that come in the same design as the original Airport Card. They are indeed identical wireless cards , which Apple sold in Japan. The japanese company I-O Data ...
The comedy film "Zack and Miri make a Porno" by Kevin Smith (2008) has a dysfunctional iBook as a supporting role. Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are roommates, they have been friends ...
The YoYo power adapter was customized for the Clamshell iBook. The housing has been agglutinated, so you will find no screws to open it. I used two solid scrapers to crack it open.
Here is the adapter ...
Apple used to promote its products via Product Placement in major TV-Series and Cine films. A paradigm is "Good Advice" (2001) with Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. A Blueberry iBook shows up right ...
The exhibition Stylectrical in Hamburg, Germany ended in January 2012. The "Museum für Kunst und Gerwerbe" showed everything´ Designer Jonathan Ive made for Apple starting from 1997 when the Apple ...
The iBook Trackpad is beautifully designed even from within. When you remove the metal shield you get a detailed view of the electronics assembly. The clip for the trackpad cable is located at the bottom ...
... of the display shields is not so complicated, read my tutorials here and here. You can also mod ify the shield which lays under the keyboard and trackpad. The removal of the bottom shield is more complicated ...
The Exploded View is helpful to locate the components, mounting parts and its correct labelling. A click opens a new window with a larger view.
Promotional film featuring iBook Designer Jonathan Ive, Phil Schiller and user testimonials. Thanks, vintagemacmuseum for sharing this great commercial !
... with a power cord which is aligned to your country. You will find also a mod em cable in the purchased parts package. In some countries an extra adapter is supplied. The firewire Clamshell iBooks ...
... is pin-compatible. Use hot glue to fix display in the right position. Apply open firmware hack from http://ibookmod .livejournal.com/ (a little bit tricky) DVD playback on a 466 mhz or 366Mhz (restricted) ...
The subsequent part of the Clamshell Unboxing series describes the contents of the box. You are on the edge of your seat with anticipation when the assessories box shows up which is placed in a rounded ...
One day when i tried to install a new hard drive in a graphite firewire clamshell, i found the word Robin punched into the heatsink. Maybe a clever sort of unique identification in case of theft? But over ...
The american website MACENSTEIN presents randomly a "Mac chick of the month". The formula for success: attractive young ladies present their favorite Apple products. The x-rated Chick of the month december ...
... edition in September 2000. The longitudinal side shows two different views of the included iBook in its mod el color which showed up in the print and TV ads every day. A pile of these iBook boxes in ...
Many Clamshell Owners don't posess the original Software installation and restore CD (orange or grey) any more. If you plan to install OS9 (some say they best OS ever) keep an eye out for the orginal ...
More than 10 years after the release of the original iBook, Hewlett Packard launched the HP Mini 100e (Education Edition). The design replica even has a integrated handle and is targeted towards the comsumer ...
The Gemini is based on a G3 Clamshell iBook (300/366/466MHZ) - it has a integrated touchscreen and was built to support disabled people. The Gemini iBook was the second Mac mod ded by Assistive Technology ...
Your old battery is dead and gone - but the new one refuses to charge. A good many times a defective PRAM capacitor (the blue round one in the middle of the picture) might be the cause. It is located ...
The bottom case including the sides with the interfaces and the optical drive is double-shot in rubber. The rugged design makes the Clamshell very skid-proof and insusceptible against scratches. There ...
The first things you should do to speed up your iBook is to max out the RAM to 576MB (or 544MB) and to pull out the old HD and put a new one in. Apart from these mod ifications, people tried to speed ...
Back in 1999 the prize for Apple notebook hardware was twice as high as nowadays. In Germany the Clamshell iBook was sold for 3699 Deutsche Mark which was about $ 2020 in these days. A good deal more ...
When Steve Jobs returned as Apple CEO, he tried to get rid of the perplexing variety of computer mod els of Quadra, Performa, LC, Power Macintosh and PowerBooks. A new simple Four-Box grid - respectively ...
A plain vanilla iPad in iBook mod comes from Osaka, Japan, published on applenoir.com. The iPad replaces the tft display, a keyboard is connected via iPad camera connection Kit. You can find a more detailed ...
Apple's successful new i products - the iMac and the iBook: Some people wondered what the hype is all about. Taste the light irony of a fake product - the iBrator which brings new meaning to the phrase ...
The Clamshell iBook turned out to be very popular with pilferers. Therefore the advertising agency TBWA created a campaign for Brazil in july 2000 after an iBook was stolen during a press conference- The ...
Here are the frontpages of some German Mac magazines in 1999 and 2000 when the original iBook and the two revisions were released.
David Moody, Apple's director of worldwide desktop product marketing, said during his keynote speech at Macworld Expo Singapore '98: "In the first half of 1999, we will be able to show you something completely ...
The bright sun causes the yellowing of polycarbonate plastics. Please store your clamshell in a shady place, otherwise the opaque white will turn to off-white and the grey will turn to green grey. The ...
It is good to put some spare parts back for rainy days. But this Tangerine Top Case looked so nice... I've removed the metal shield carefully and put it on top of a wall lamp. There a two screw nuts integrated ...
Back in 2002 Griffin released the iCurve, a nearly invisible laptop stand which was made of a single bar of crystal clear plastic. The elegant and curvy design matches the Clamshell in a perfect way. ...
<< Say hello to iBook>> was a successful advertising slogan in print and television ads. A 4-sided iBook booklet in letter format showed the Clamshell in front and rear view. When opened, ...
Can you buy anything from the internet? The website sound-effects.com offers 39 original Clamshell sounds such as CD spin, startup chime, handle snap - each for a fist full of dollars. Good news: you ...
When the original iBook in Tangerine and Blueberry was presentesd by Steve Jobs on July 21 in 1999 it came with Mac OS 8.6. Only a couple of months later in October the new OS9 was released. According ...
The Design USB speakers made by Harman Kardon that came with the Apple PowerMac G4 Cube work when connected to the Clamshell iBook. The Cube has special USB ports which provide 10W output for the amplifier, ...
The MS-3000 data book was a tiny Alarm Clock with calendar, time display and featured the Clamshell Design. It was available in Tangerine, Blueberry, Graphite and a barbie-like pink - manufactured somewhere ...
The Clamshell iBook was reputed to attract women. This statement has been tested thoroughly by Jörg Pitschmann, a photographer from Berlin, who owns a Clamshell graphite.
These images ...
The LaCie Firewire Speakers look pretty good and don't need an AC adapter because they are bus-powered. If you own a firewire Clamshell this might be the right choice. There connecting cable between the ...
... no, actually for Microsoft Office 2001 - but you won't notice it while turning the pages. The new MS Office version for the Mac was published almost at the same time when the last iBook firewire revisions ...
A fascinating three-dimensional Computed tomography (CT) image of the inside of a Clamshell iBook generated by a series of X-ray images can be found at radiology art. Made on a Mac: Using Photoshop, ...
... Hack and DVD Playback works as to be seen on Youtube. The Clamshell Mod ification Project published a new method using the terminal application to achieve the correct communication with a XGA Display panel, ...
For serveral years we've enjoyed the Joy of Tech Comics by Snaggy (Bruce Evans) and Nitrozac (Liza Schmalcel). Nitrozac loves the Clamshell iBook , in her words: still the best design ever. Perhaps ...
If you find the white keyboard a little boring, there is something you can do: get yourself a keyboard from a PowerBook Pismo. The bronze keyboard of the Clamshell's elder brother has exactly the same ...
It is possible to install the free recent version of Ubuntu Linux,8.04 Hardy Heron on the Clamshell iBook. The PowerPC Desktop version needs at least 256MB RAM, i've installed it without problems on a ...
... 15" notebook skin. Do you like to have a Blueberry SkyBook ? It is quite easy and does not interfere with the original design. Follow the instructions for the luminiscent apple mod to get ...
Poor Kids - they do their best to destroy the iBook but....
It seems very easy to destroy a PowerBook Titanium only with the help of a smaller hammer....
Tatjana Kraslova und das Powerbook ...
Announced in July 1999 at Macworld New York, the iBook was perhaps the most anxiously awaited Apple computer ever. Aimed at the same consumer market as its big brother, the iMac, the iBook filled the 2x2 ...
There are a lot of loyal and creative iBook Clamshell fans in Japan. At the Macworld Expo 2000 in Tokyo a meeting of iBookers took place. Mitsuaki Ohashi designed iBook Paper Craft (click on Remote CTL). ...
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In der US-amerikanischen Filmkömod ie "Zack and Miri make a Porno" von Kevin Smith aus dem Jahr 2008 spielt ein widerspenstiges Blueberry iBook eine komische Nebenrolle. Miri (Elizabeth Banks) ...
Die ersten Mod ellfarben der iBooks ohne Firewire bis Februar 2000 in Tangerine, Blueberry und Graphite hatten ein halbdurchsichtiges Polycarbonatgehäuse, das einen Einblick auf das darunterliegende Innenleben ...
lf the iMac was designed for browsing the Web at home, then the iBook was created to access the lnternet on the go. The original mod el was a rugged clamshell design with a six-hour Lithium lon battery ...
Im folgenden Artikel werde ich auf den Inhalt der Zubehörbox eingehen, der sich je nach iBook Mod ell, Datum und Verkaufsland unterscheiden konnte Beim Öffnen der Box fand man ein Sortiment an Hardware, ...
... mod ification project abrufbar ist. Ich musste die Prozedur einige Male wiederholen bevor es klappte - also nicht entmutigen lassen. Wie im Video zu beobachten ist, startet das iBook weiterhin mit 800x600, ...
... der Zubehörbox , die sicher auf einem Styroporformteil mit 4 abgerundeten Säulen ruht. Das Motiv auf der Zubehörbox unterscheidet sich je nach Auslieferungsdatum und Mod ell.
Die 300Mhz Mod elle ...
... identifizieren zu können. Nachdem ich inzwischen schon drei Robin Heatsinks aus unterschiedlichen Teilen der Welt in Firewire Mod ellen gefunden habe, muss es eine andere Erklärung geben. Gibt es auch andere ...
... 2000 nur in Teilbereichen.
Auf den Breitseiten der Verpackung ist die enthaltene Mod ellfarbe in zwei verschiedenen Perspektivaufnahmen abgebildet, die auch in der Werbung immer wieder auftauchten. ...
... Technologies gibt es schon länger nicht mehr, eine archivierte Webseite ist jedoch noch verfügbar. 2009 kaufte ich ein 366Mhz Indigo Mod ell aus den USA und rüstete es mit einer 120GB Festplatte auf. ...
... integriert, sodass sie gegen ein Abfallen geschützt sind - Nutzer der schwarzen PowerBook Serie als auch die weissen iBook Nachfolgemod elle hatten oft mit diesem Problem zu kämpfen. Nach vielen Jahren ...
... new iBook, and the AirPort* Base Station, which contains a 56K mod em and a 10BASE-T Ethernet port for connecting to a phone line, cable mod em, DSL mod em or local area network for terrestrial Internet ...
... includes the AirPort Card, which fits inside Apple’s new iBook, and the AirPort Base Station, which contains a 56K mod em and a 10BASE-T Ethernet port for connecting to a phone line, cable mod em, DSL ...
... DVD movies on the go, comes in Graphite. Both mod els also come in the season’s hottest new color, Key Lime, available exclusively from Apple’s Online Store (www.apple.com).
“iBook has been a big hit ...
... today introduced an enhanced iBook™ lineup, including the debut of iBook Special Edition. Featuring double the memory and hard drive size, all three new iBook mod els come standard with 64MB of memory ...
Mit der Vorstellung des Clamshell iBooks für den Comsumer Produktbereich komplettierte Steve Jobs am 21.Juli 1999 die Vereinfachung der Produktpalette. Während vorher eine Vielzahl von Computermod ellen ...
Eine verblüffend einfach zu realisierende Idee für ein mod ifiziertes iBook kommt aus dem japanischen Osaka und wird auf der Seite von applenoir.com beschrieben. Ein iPad wird an Stelle des Displays eingesetzt, ...
Schließlich kam dann aber doch noch Begeisterung in den Reihen der Fans auf. Nacheinander glitten nämlich drei neue "iBook"-Mod elle in neuen Farben ("Indigo" und "Key Lime") aus dem Boden: Der "Firewire"-Anschluss ...
Für meine iBooks habe ich einige Ersatzteile zurückgelegt. Das Tangerine Top Case ist fast zu schön, um es einfach nur in den Schrank zu legen. Deshalb habe ich vorsichtig die metallene Verblendung abgenommen ...
... auf der Notebook Tastatur ist der iCurve nicht gedacht, da das Material federt. Sammler können ihr Clamshell auf einem iCurve perfekt präsentieren. Das im Jahre 2002 eingeführte Mod ell wurde vier Jahre ...
OS8.6 lief tatsächlich nur auf der ersten Welle der produzierten (originalen) iBooks in den Mod ellfarben Tangerine und Blueberry, die im Juli 1999 vorgestellt und ab September ausgeliefert wurden. Steve ...
Das MS-3000 data book eines unbekannten chinesischen Herstellers enthält eine Datenbank mit Wecker und integriertem Taschenrechner im Clamshell Design. Es war erhältlich in den Mod ellfarben Tangerine, ...
We think the iBook with iMovie 2 will prove to be a useful tool for the fledgling DV editor who wants to put together home videos with a simple interface, powerful processing and mod erate price tag for ...
... Mod ification Project hat ebenfalls ein neue Methode zur Ansteuerung eines XGA-Bildschirms veröffentlicht, die auf Terminalbefehlen basiert und dem iBook eine andere Display/Grafikkartenkombination mitteilt. ...
This was the mod el that everyone was talking about. Should you buy the Pismo, or the SE 466 MHz Clamshell iBook? That was ‘the’ question during the time. While some knew that the Pismo simply had more ...
... simuliert, selbst die verkleinerte Schrift bleibt gut lesbar. Ein auf macmod .com von Tom Mordasky (vielen Dank!) veröffentlichter Workaround, der zudem nur unter OSX 10.4 Tiger über das sogenannte ...
Ist ein 466Mhz Clamshell iBook geeignet für den Anschluß an einen mod ernen digitalen Projektor ? Ja, es ist sogar möglich sich ein kleines Heimkino damit aufzubauen: Digitaler Projektor: Ich habe ...
... passt nicht, sodass für einen Tastaturmod leider etwas Handarbeit gefragt ist. Die bronzefarbenen Tastaturkappen lassen sich vorsichtig von der weissen Federmechanik lösen und umklippsen. Auch die Tasten ...
... schön aus.
Wenn man das Abdeckblech auszubauen will, folgt man einfach den Instruktionen von meinem leuchtenden Apfel Mod . Wenn der Apfel zusatzlich leuchten soll, muss man gegebenenfalls ...
Auch in Japan gibt es eine treue, kreative Clamshell Fangemeinde. Auf der Macworld Expo 2000 in Tokyo wurde ein Treffen der iBookers organisiert, Mitsuaki Ohashi entwarf iBook Papiermod elle (Remote CTL ...
... Das erste iBook das 1999 präsentiert wurde, hatte die Mod ellfarbe tangerine und erhielt alsbald den Spitznamen Klodeckel. ...
... das Rechnergehäuse als Multimediastation auch standalone nutzen zu können finde ich sehr überzeugend - auch Komponentenwechsel wären sehr viel einfacher. Schade dass es nur ein Mod ell ist. ...
Die von DrBott vertriebene iBook Bag Serie des amerikanischen Herstellers West Ridge Designs gehört zu den robusten, hochwertig verarbeiteten und geräumigen Mod ellen, die genug Platz für Zubehör und weitere ...
