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 ...
The first non-firewire iBook Clamshell colors in Tangerine, Blueberry and Graphite had a translucent polycarbonate plastics case which enables you to see the subjacent silver-gray shielding plates. A white ...
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 !
This article deals with the contents of the accessories box. Depending on the iBook Revision and country where the Clamshell was sold, some parts are included or not. When you open the box all items are ...
Here is a short video with a new 1024x768 screen. After a prolonged boot time the resolution switches from 800x600 to XGA, because of a firmware hack. You need a Clamshell iBook with a ...
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 model color which showed up in the print and TV ads every day. A pile of these iBook boxes in ...
... white OS9 retail CD with the number 9 in orange.Beware! Only the CD with the phrase print ed on the left side: To start up from this CD, hold down the C key as the computer starts up (at the bottom of ...
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 modded 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 modifications, people tried to speed ...
... than $ 1599 in the USA! The picture shows a print ed advertising of the distributor GRAVIS in the german magazine MacUp 10/99. The PowerBook G3 333Mhz (Bronze Keyboard) which was released in May 1999 ...
When Steve Jobs returned as Apple CEO, he tried to get rid of the perplexing variety of computer models 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, ...
The Ebay USA vendor odds-n-ends4you sells maxed out Clamshell iBooks with a 1024x768 display panel - starting bid around 500 US$, but only for buyers in the USA and Canada. Apparently he uses no OpenFirmware ...
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 ...
... favourite little kittens of your daughter. Underneath the plastics is a thin metal sheet on which you can fix an adhesive foil. These are available for color print ers - or you buy a adequate professional ...
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). ...
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 ...
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... 30-day trial with EarthLink;
24x-speed CD-ROM drive;
A USB port for peripherals such as print ers, input and storage devices;
Mac® OS 9, featuring 9 Internet power tools;
ATI RAGE Mobility ...
Das Clamshell iBook erwies sich auch bei Dieben als sehr begehrt: Die Werbeagentur TBWA nahm eine Zeitungsmeldung zum Aufhänger einer brasilianischen Werbekampagne im Juli 2000. Das iBook ist nicht auf ...
"Sag Hallo zum iBook" war ein gut gemachter Werbeslogan für die Print - und Fernsehwerbung. In einigen Computerzeitschriften und in Apple Stores lagen auch aufklappbare 4-seitige Flyer, die ein Clamshell ...
... USB port for peripherals such as print ers, input devices and storage devices; * The world's easiest to use operating system, Mac OS 8.6; * 32MB SDRAM, expandable to 160MB; * ATI RAGE Mobility graphic ...
