- 1. Tulip Ego - The Clamshell Clone
- (Trivia)
- ... 12.1 inch WXGA widescreen display 1280*800 pixels, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard disk, DVD+/-RW drive, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth included. Price: around 4000 euros in the basic configuration. Below is a side-by-side ...
- 2. Welcome!
- (Welcome)
- ... the original iBooks has still a lot of aficionados around the world - i am one of them. I started this website in 2006 in german - my first language. When i noticed that a lot of people from anglophone ...
- 3. Play your favorite Youtube movies
- (Software hints)
- Unfortunately, the flash-based Youtube movies ask too much of the iBook hardware. My workaround: Save Youtube movies with a little help from keepvid.com in mp4 format. The video player VLC (OSX 10.3.9 ...
- 4. West Ridge Designs iBookBag
- (Accessories)
- The iBookBag from West Ridge Designs is probably one of the best for the Clamshell. Is was sold basically by DrBott. If you need to carry around more accessories than the power adapter, the iBook Bag provides ...
- 5. iClam: XGA Clamshell on Ebay
- (Hardware hints)
- 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 ...
- 6. iBook Clamshell defects: Part 2 - The small Apple logo
- (Hardware hints)
- A small colored Apple logo is integrated in the display bezel. The first models in tangerine, blueberry and graphite show very often tension cracks around this logo, the firewire Clamshell iBooks seldom. ...
- 7. Apple commercial: iBook - Notice the change
- (Multimedia)
- Apple promotional video with the song by Barry White "You turned my whole world around" 1977, CD "Barry White Sings for Someone You Love", remastered, Mercury / Universal YvAIFrnNZS0 ...
- 8. Harddisks larger than 128GB
- (Hardware hints)
- ... disks. If a 160GB hard drive is installed, the Clamshell will only recognise it as a 128GB HD. If you want to use the full capacity, only a workaround helps. Place the hard drive in an external ...
- 9. Harddrive upgrade
- (Hardware hints)
- The first iBook came with a 3 GB HD, which was a fair balance because MacOS needed only 500 MB space. The next revision in February 2000 had a 6 GB HD installed, the final second Edition sported a 10 ...
- 10. External Video an a Clamshell
- (Accessories)
- ... The external USB box myTV from Eskape was originally designed for connection to an iMac. It will works on the clamshell with a workaround. Because the device needs a microphone input jack on the iBook ...
- 11. Codename P1: bMate, WebMate, eBook, iBook?
- (Trivia)
- 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 ...
- 12. David Pogue, Joseph Schorr- Macworld Mac Secrets (2001)
- (iBook arguments)
- The iBook's clamshell design is completely free of latches, doors, or flaps(not even a close latch), so there is nothing to jam, snap or break off. Equally brilliant was the addition of a flip-up carrying ...
- 13. Webbrowser Opera: Pseudo 1024x768 resolution
- (Software hints)
- ... quite good quality, even the reduced font remains good readable. A workaround published on macmod.com by Tom Mordasky (thank you very much!), which also only worked under OSX 10.4 Tiger via the so-called ...
- 14. Josh Forman, jofo.com
- (iBook arguments)
- After tbe keynote ended, Apple employees scatered around the croud stood up and took out their iBooks!! They were in generic black bags so no one would suspect anything. Anyone in the keynote could have ...
- 15. Buy Clamshell from overseas
- (Hardware hints)
- ... cable for around 6 euros here in Germany. The YoYo power supply also runs with the 220V that is usual in Germany. Cheap shipping via USPS Before the end of the auction, ask the seller whether shipping ...
- 16. Playing Playstation 1 Games
- (Software hints)
- The Connectix Virtual Game Station was a great opportunity to expand the range of games, which was meager compared to the Windows platform. With this software (costs around 50 euros) you could play ...
- 17. Clamshell Purchase Advisor
- (Hardware hints)
- ... for around 180 euros (there are also 366s without Firewire, mostly graphite with smaller graphics memory and 6 GB hard drive), the 466s Models are rarer and more expensive (up to 350 euros), but have a ...
- 18. Which MacOS ?
- (Software hints)
- ... (Tiger) With the help of the Xpostfacto shareware program, OSX 10.4 can be installed on an iBook without a FireWire port. As a workaround, you can also install a hard drive that already has an installed ...
- 19. keyboard keys no longer respond
- (Hardware hints)
- A common error that occurs after years of use is that one or more keys no longer respond, although everything mechanically seems to be in order. As a workaround, you can replace individual keys by pressing ...