- 1. Power suppy damage
- (Hardware hints)
- ... "yo-yo", "hockey puck", "frisbee", "UFO" , "biscuit", "hamburger" or "flying saucer". Unfortunately, the UFO power supply is a well-known weak point - either it completely dies after a few years of loyal service ...
- 2. Worker bee's betrayal of iBook secret
- (Trivia)
- ... Clamshells, which should be introduced in Paris in September 2000 were published in summer. After some investigation it turned out that a young man who had a temporary job in the Quality Assurance at ...
- 3. Clamshell LG TFT 800x600 - 1024x768 from iBook G4
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- n6NEl3bBQ3g 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 LG ...
- 4. Phil Schiller's iBook stun
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- Immediately after his presentation of the iBook and its new airport feature: Marketing Director Phil Schiller jumps with his wireless connected iBook several meters down onto a gym mat - nice stunt ! ...
- 5. Just another Clamshell Clone: HP Mini 100e
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- 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 ...
- 6. Luminiscent Apple Mod
- (Hardware hints)
- ... display is on in a dark room, you will see that the surrounding of the apple is gently glowing. Roll up your sleeves - we can do better than that. After the Luminiscent Apple Mod you will get a lovely ...
- 7. LaCie Firewire speakers
- (Accessories)
- 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 ...
- 8. iBook spare parts
- (Hardware hints)
- After Apple cancelled the hardware support for the Clamshell iBook which means that new parts are no longer produced, there are only a few sources of supply left. The first parts you have to replace are ...
- 9. iBook Clamshell Product Placement: Film Good Advice
- (Multimedia)
- 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 after ...
- 10. No more hardware support
- (Hardware hints)
- Apple has discontinued the hardware support for the Clamshell iBook series. This means that original spare parts are no longer manufactured. Apple service partners will be not able to get a new logicboard ...
- 11. Firmware update
- (Hardware hints)
- ... Follow the onscreen instructions. When prompted, click Shut Down in the dialog box to shut down your iBook. After the computer has shut down, hold down the Command (Apple) key and Power button to start ...
- 12. Harddisks larger than 128GB
- (Hardware hints)
- The ATA-4 controller working in the Clamshell iBook is not able to take advantage of drives larger than 128GB. Apple states that -as a guideline- all Macs released after June 2002 can address larger hard ...
- 13. The iBook is not on the table
- (Trivia)
- 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 ...
- 14. The white Tangerine iBook, that never was
- (Hardware hints)
- After my succesful Redefined Tangerine iBook Mod i reached out for a totally insanely opaque snowwhite version. The Bottomcase, Topcase, Battery door and Optical drive Bezel were coated with white spray ...
- 15. Bulletproof Clamshell
- (Trivia)
- 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 ...
- 16. Clamshell on the front page
- (Trivia)
- 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 ...
- 17. Booting from a USB drive
- (Hardware hints)
- ... not considered as a boot device by the Clamshell Boot boot menu which shows up when you press ALT right after powering the iBook. So the clue to the problem is a USB 1.1 compatible chipset - you have to ...
- 18. Blueberry preferred
- (Trivia)
- The german website MacGadget stated that Apple wholesalers Gravis in August 1999 gave the color preferences of initial orders from Germany after the appearance of the first iBook series as follows: Blueberry ...
- 19. Beep Codes at startup
- (Hardware hints)
- ... 3 Three beeps: The built-in RAM / The extra RAM module have errors. 4 Four beeps: Checksum error in the boot-ROM. If after the start a dialog box appears with the message: "Built-in memory test ...
- 20. Apple Hardware Test
- (Hardware hints)
- ... to go safe, one selects the extended test routines with continuous loops. Some RAM errors are identified after some dozen runs. A free Download from Apple (Wayback machine) of the hardware test for older ...