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Steve Jobs demonstrated this feature during the presentation of the iBook at the Macworld conference and Expo in New York on Jul 21 in 1999. The designer Jonathan Ive wanted to facilitate the process of carrying the iBook, e.g. in University from one lecture hall to the other. |
A new and unique feature of the Clamshell iBook was the seamlessly integrated handle which is invisible at first sight.Polls
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Cite
| Intended as a kind of portable iMac, the two-year-old iBook started life as a bulky, gaudy rubberized clamshell that barely fit into backpacks, with a carry-case plastic handle and choice of colors that critics--yours truly included--derided as "Barbie-like." Chris Taylor, Time Magazine |
