- 1. The yellowing of polycarbonate plastic
- (Hardware hints)
- The bright sun causes the yellowing of polycarbonate plastics. Please store your clamshell in a shady place, otherwise the opaque white will turn to off-white and the grey will turn to green grey. The ...
- 2. OS9 Retail CD and Update must not be confused
- (Software hints)
- Many Clamshell Owners don't posess the original Software installation and restore CD (orange or grey) any more. If you plan to install OS9 (some say they best OS ever) keep an eye out for the orginal ...
- 3. MacOSX Tiger 10.4 - CD and DVD versions
- (Software hints)
- ... a black DVD is suited for your iBook, grey install DVD are connected to other Aplle hardware products and will not run on your iBook. Minimum system requirements for Mac OS X v10.4: * A PowerPC ...
- 4. Clamshell Unboxing Part 2: The contents
- (Trivia)
- ... will notice that the sides and the back of the first edition is grey with a bigger white apple. When you remove the box, the iBook which still rests in beautiful designed Styrofoam shows up. There ...
- 5. Case Mod: A whiter shade....
- (Hardware hints)
- The first non-firewire iBook Clamshell colors in Tangerine, Blueberry and Graphite had a translucent polycarbonate plastics case which enables you to see the subjacent silver-gray shielding plates. A white ...
- 6. Exhibition Stylectrical: How Apple conquered design
- (Trivia)
- ... was multicolored and the computers were grey, which he instantly turned upside down. One of the Designers which had a great impact on Ive was the German Dieter Rams - his products for electronics manufacturer ...
- 7. iBook Colors
- (Trivia)
- The iBook was introduced on July 21, 1999 in the colors tangerine (orange) and blueberry (light blue). On 2/16/2000 a 366MHZ clocked model in Graphite (grey) was released. On September 13, ...
- 8. Nicknames of the Clamshell iBook
- (Trivia)
- ... looked completely different from the other rectangular notebooks in black or silver-grey. Mockers soon came up with nicknames : Toilet-Seat, Barbie-Purse or make-up case. In fact, toys later appeared ...