- 1. Logicboard error only in white iBooks
- (Trivia)
- ... in July 2007. The program was available for certain iBook G3 models (see below for a complete list) with serial numbers in the following range: UV117XXXXXX to UV342XXXXXX iBooks with the serial ...
- 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. Worker bee's betrayal of iBook secret
- (Trivia)
- Starting in February 2000 websites like appleinsider and ZDnet seemed to be well informed about upcoming Apple products including iBooks, the Power Mac G4 and the Pro Mouse . The specs of the Second Edition ...
- 4. The leaf is missing
- (Hardware hints)
- A common deficiency in used iBooks is the lack of the leaf near the large colored Apple on the top case. You will hardly notice when it gets lost. I had a good looking Blueberry iBook, which i preperred ...
- 5. OS9 treasures: Appleworks 6
- (Software hints)
- On the original iBook OS9 installation CD you will find in addition to the operating system some bonus programs that are easily overlooked. The first iBooks which came with Mac OS8.6 were bundled with ...
- 6. XPostFacto brings Tiger to original iBook
- (Software hints)
- ... without FireWire therefore accept only OSX 10.3 Panther as maximum OS. The newer Clamshell iBooks models with FireWire can use Tiger without any problem. With the help of the software XPostFacto you can ...
- 7. MacOSX Tiger 10.4 - CD and DVD versions
- (Software hints)
- Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger is the last version that can be installed on Clamshell G3 iBooks with a firewire port, because OSX 10.5 Leopard doesn't support the G3 Processor. Ony the Retail Version of Tiger on ...
- 8. Will my iBook run OS 8.6?
- (Software hints)
- ... to Apple's product policy all new hardware turned out from that point need OS 9 as minimum OS. Clamshell iBooks with 300mhz were produced until September, so it is likely that your Tangerine or Blueberry ...
- 9. How to identify the display panel: LG, Samsung, IBM
- (Hardware hints)
- The Clamshell iBook was a commercial success. Apple sold 300.000 iBooks during the first weeks. The display component suppliers were not able to handle such demands, so displays of different manufacturers ...
- 10. 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 ...
- 11. Dicota WinBag for Clamshell iBook
- (Accessories)
- The Winbag bag is made for the Clamshell iBooks. One side is transparent and gives a good view on the iBook. There is a large side pocket for the YoYo power supply, cables, mouse and so on. The ...
- 12. iBook Display Case Skin Mod
- (Hardware hints)
- ... get hold of the metal sheet. If you remove the foil behind the apple, you have to cut out the appropriate space in your notebook skin too. The case of the firewire iBooks is made of more opaque material, ...
- 13. 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. ...
- 14. Apple commercial: iBook Attract Loop
- (Multimedia)
- Official promotional video "Attract Loop" by Apple with the original blueberry and tangerine iBooks r5X_ucoUXo8 ...
- 15. Bottom case double-shot in rubber
- (Hardware hints)
- ... iBooks. Afer several years of use the rubber might peel off, you may glue it back using a transparent all-purpose-adhesive. Unfortunately there has never been a spare part by Apple to replace the rubber ...
- 16. Earthquake delays iBook delivery
- (Trivia)
- On September, 21. 1999, the date of the iBook delivery a major earthquake of magnitude 7.6 shook Taiwan. There were approximately 2300 dead persons, almost 10000 buildings collapsed, about 7500 were ...
- 17. A german Novel: Roula Rouge
- (Books)
- A pink clamshell iBook is on the cover of the german novel "Roula Rouge" by Mathias Nolte. Quite irritating, because the iBooks that plays a featured part is a white G3 800MHZ and not a Clamshell. What ...
- 18. DVD drives
- (Hardware hints)
- The iBook with 300 and 366MHZ Clocking were only equipped with a CD-ROM drive. Users reported that the following internal drives will work in Clamshell iBooks: DVD ROM Matshita SR-817x CD-RW Toshiba ...
- 19. Cleaning the display bezel
- (Hardware hints)
- The first iBooks with a translucent polycarbonate plastic case sometimes show some stains on the inside of the display bezel. Fortunately it is possible to open the display case without touching the rest. ...
- 20. The iBook Display
- (Hardware hints)
- Apple uses displays of different manufacturers with native 800x600 pixel resolution in the Clamshell iBooks. The displays have different connectors for the display itself, therefore a broken display has ...