- 1. German Consumer Magazine recommends iBook
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- 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 ...
- 2. Consumer vs. Pro: Pricing of iBook and PowerBook
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- 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 ...
- 3. New battery won't charge - PRAM capacitor problem
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- 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 near ...
- 4. iBook completes new 4-Box product strategy
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- ... one pro desktop, pro notebook, consumer desktop and consumer notebook with a catchy nomenclature. Products for professionals started with Power (PowerMac, PowerBook), consumer products with the letter ...
- 5. Codename P1: bMate, WebMate, eBook, iBook?
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- ... new at the portable end of the consumer space" . When Steve Jobs presented the PowerBook Lombard which was part of the professional line in May 1999 he had to put the audience off who was waiting for the ...
- 6. Tom Thompson, Computerworld.com
- (iBook arguments)
- Apple Computer Inc. touts the iBook, its new consumer-class Macintosh notebook computer, as an "iMac to go." It certainly looks the part: Its clamshell case sports colored panels in either a bright peacock ...
- 7. Michael deAgonia, Computerworld.com
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- Opinion: The top 10 standout Macs of the past 25 years - The iBook (1999) ...Most importantly, it was the first-ever mainstream consumer device that showcased wireless networking, something Jobs nonchalantly ...
- 8. Andrew Gore, Macworld.com
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- Although Apple's consumer portable may be one of the company's most hotly anticipated products ever, the iBook's reality falls short of its media-generated hype. It's not exactly a case of the emperor having ...
- 9. Tony Smith, theregister.co.uk
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- Apple appears to have selected the name iBook for its forthcoming consumer and education-oriented notebook Mac, better known by its codename, P1. The name 'iBook' has been assigned to the company as a trademark ...
- 10. Ronald O. Carlson, mac.blorge.com
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- Appleās first consumer/education notebook shipped in 1999 and broke a lot of new ground. From the durable construction and floppy-drive free design to its fruity iMac inspired styling and, of course, 802.11b ...
- 11. Michael Tsai, atpm.com
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- All in all, the keynote audience was very pleased with the iBook except for two points: pricing and availability. At $1599, $400 more than the iMac, I think the iBook is reasonably priced for a consumer ...
- 12. 30 years of Apple Products, wired.com
- (iBook arguments)
- 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 ...
- 13. Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet.co.uk
- (iBook arguments)
- With the iBook, Jobs, Apple's seemingly permanent interim CEO, jumped through a daunting business hoop of his own. He needed one year to create products in four areas (professional and consumer desktops ...
- 14. Kevin Anderson, BBC news
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- Apple has been pressing hard to retain its place in the education market as it offers more appealing computers to consumers, and the iBook introduced new technologies that it hopes will appeal to both ...
- 15. tidbits.com
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- ... the consumer market with the iBook, and the designers obviously thought long and hard about which features could be cut to save money while at the same time differentiating the iBook from the PowerBook ...
- 16. Stephen H.Wildstrom, BusinessWeek.com
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- Still, the important news is that Apple has followed up on its iMac success by again becoming a significant innovator in portable computing. At a time when most of the industry is straining to make cookie-cutter ...
- 17. Chris Allbritton, salon.com
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- ... the 32 Mbytes of RAM, the 56k modem, the built-in Ethernet, not even the low price tag that moves these things out the door. No. What will sell the iBook is that Jobs understands that consumers want ...
- 18. iBook: Technical criticism
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- The clamshell iBook was an inexpensive notebook for the consumer market, which was offered for a reasonable 1599 US dollars and therefore initially did not include many features that were reserved ...
- 19. the iMac to go
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- ... for business users was called "PowerBook". For the consumer market of private users at home, at school and at university, the "i" was selected as the identifying feature. After the colorful "iMac" desktop ...