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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 models of Quadra, Performa, LC, Power Macintosh and PowerBooks. A new simple Four-Box grid - respectively ...
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.
<< 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Years before he moved to San Francisco to join the Apple design team, iBook Designer Jonathan Ive started his designer career in 1990 as a partner of the London agency tangerine. A major customer was the ...
If you like audio podcasts and vintage Apple Computers, take a look at RetroMacCast. In episode 27 James and John are taking a closer look at the presentation of the Clamshell in 1999, discussing the ...
The unique Clamshell iBook Design is appreciated by well known Museums of Modern Art. You will find it in the London Design Museum along with other objects from Apple Designer Jonathan Ive. The New York ...
Starting in February 2000 websites like appleinsider and ZDnet seemed to be well informed about upcoming Apple products including iBooks, the Power Mac G4 and the Pro Mouse . The specs of the Second Edition ...
The major drawback of the Clamshell iBook is the limitation of the 800x600 screen specially in OSX, which was build for larger screens. On the iBook modification project page you can find instructions ...
The Clamshell iBook showed up on several front pages such as Playboy right after the Apple Expo in Paris on the 13. of September 2000 where Steve Jobs revealed the Second Edition iBooks . The Apple Logo ...
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iToilet
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iToilet was a spoof advert written by Stephen Murray in March 2002, targetting at the coloured iMac and iBook models. It was also a parody of Apple's persuasive advertising. But nevertheless nicknames ...
Das Clamshell iBook was the winner of the iBook and PowerBook Reliability survey in January 2006 spanning every laptop capable of running Mac OS X, encompassing 41 models sold over seven and a half years ...
How vintage are you - that is the question for every Clamshell user today. The first iBook generation has the Apple status of "vintage" which means that spare parts are no longer produced. The family of ...
The website www.archive.org stores recurring snapshots of websites. Even the launch of the original iBook 1999 on apple.com, and is the presentation of the Second Edition models in autumn 2000. You can ...
A pink clamshell iBook is on the cover of the german novel "Roula Rouge" by Mathias Nolte. Quite irritating, because the iBooks that plays a featured part is a white G3 800MHZ and not a Clamshell. What ...
A new and unique feature of the Clamshell iBook was the seamlessly integrated handle which is invisible at first sight.
Steve Jobs demonstrated this feature during the presentation of the iBook at the ...
Nowadays younger people will see the Clamshell iBook for the first time in movies or TV-series which were produced from 1999-2001. They are mostly in the hands of young women, e.G. Reese Witherspoon in ...
I always wanted to take a photo of the real Barbie iBook. I like to thank my daughter, who gave me her "French Barbie" from the Collector's Edition, and an original pink Barbie laptop. Insiders know ...
In the Apple discussion forum a sergeant from the U.S. Marine Corps, who was a year in Iraq reported that his vehicle was hit by a road side bomb. He luckily survived with minor injuries-as well ...
In March 1997 Apple released the Emate 300 for 800 $ - it was bigger than a PDA and smaller than a laptop. The emate ran the Newton operating system, the battery life was up to 20 hours. The display had ...
As soon as the new iBook was released in 1999, the revolutionary design met with criticism. The columnist John C. Dvorak, (PC Magazine) wrote a pamphlet which contained well known sexist stereotypes: ...
Toilet seat was a nickname for the Clamshell iBook because in their eyes it looked like a comfort station fixture. So a manufacturer of sanitary articles placed an iBook quite innocently on its web pages. ...
Tags: [iBook, Clamshell, product placement, Werbung , Film, Good advice, Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Angie Harmon] ...
Tags: [iBook, Clamshell, unboxing, auspacken, Karton, Werbung ] ...
Tags: [iBook, Clamshell, PowerBook, Gravis, Macup, Deutschland, Werbung , 1999] ...
Tags: [iBook, Brasilien, Werbung , Print, TBWA] ...
Tags: [iBook, Werbung , Clamshell, Print, hello] ...
Tags: [Think Different, Werbung , Film, Apple, Slogan] ...
In der US-amerikanischen Filmkömodie "Zack and Miri make a Porno" von Kevin Smith aus dem Jahr 2008 spielt ein widerspenstiges Blueberry iBook eine komische Nebenrolle. Miri (Elizabeth Banks) ...
Besonders im amerikanischen Raum ist Product Placement (die gezielte verdeckte Einbringung von Markenprodukten) eine gängige Möglichkeit zur Finanzierung von TV- und Kinofilmen. Der Film "Good Advice- ...
... 2000 nur in Teilbereichen.
Auf den Breitseiten der Verpackung ist die enthaltene Modellfarbe in zwei verschiedenen Perspektivaufnahmen abgebildet, die auch in der Werbung immer wieder auftauchten. ...
Im Jahr 1999 waren die Hardwarepreise für Apple Notebooks im Vergleich doppelt so hoch wie heute. Das iBook kostete beim deutschen Apple Spezialisten Gravis 3699 DM (rund 1890 Euro), eine Verdoppelung ...
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 ...
...nein, eigentlich für das Softwarepaket Microsoft Office 2001, was aber beim Umblättern überhaupt nicht auffällt. Das MS Office Paket für den Mac wurde fast zeitgleich mit den in Paris vorgestellten ...
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iToilet
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iToilet war -abgesehen von der inhaltlichen Aussage- eine geniale Parodie auf Apples Produktwerbung und unübersehbar eine Anspielung auf die bunten iMacs und Clamshell iBooks. Toilet seat (Klodeckel) war ...
