- 1. iBook top case: Shine a light
- (Trivia)
- It is good to put some spare parts back for rainy days. But this Tangerine Top Case looked so nice... I've removed the metal shield carefully and put it on top of a wall lamp. There a two screw nuts integrated ...
- 2. The breathing sleep light
- (Trivia)
- The love for the detail shows up with the Clamshell iBook even in small things. Apple chief designer Jonathan Ive (quotation) provided for example the small green light, which signals the current energy ...
- 3. iBook Design USB Hub
- (Accessories)
- ... Grape. When you connect the USB Hub to the iBook, a red LED light which is placed on the bottom lights up the translucent cable connections in red. In Fall 2012 Hama launched USB mice, speakers ...
- 4. Changing the optical drive
- (Hardware hints)
- ... 2 Metal fleece pieces 1 spacer spring 1 cage 1 flat ribbon cable 1 flat white spacer pad (remove carefully with scraper) The cage and the flat cable are slightly glued to the drive, use a spatula. ...
- 5. Luminiscent Apple Mod
- (Hardware hints)
- ... light-show for your Clamshell iBook - as to be seen in the picture above. To my surprise I've found out that only a metal foil has to be removed to do the trick. It looks as if iBook designer ...
- 6. iBook AirPort Card - AirMac Card
- (Hardware hints)
- Sometimes you will find AirMac Cards that come in the same design as the original Airport Card. They are indeed identical wireless cards , which Apple sold in Japan. The japanese company I-O Data owned ...
- 7. Cleaning the display bezel
- (Hardware hints)
- ... torx screws near the sleep light. The display bezel ist jammed underneath the bulging top case, therefor you need to get between the case parts and pull the bezel away from the rest. A thin ...
- 8. Clamshell Unboxing Part 3: Accessories Box
- (Trivia)
- ... The non-firewire iBooks had a guide with a red cover. The firewire iBooks had a slightly different guide with a new cover design. An additional Getting started guide shows the setting-up-operation ...
- 9. Clamshell Unboxing Part 1: The covering box
- (Trivia)
- More than 12 years have passed since Steve Jobs unveiled the original iBook in July 1999. Most of the used Clamshell iBooks you can buy today have lost their original packaging and accessories. If you ...
- 10. Booting from a USB drive
- (Hardware hints)
- ... USB from a Philipps LightScribe DVD-burner which is in an external 5.25 " NoName enclosure with USB and FireWire ports which has a Prolific PL-3507 chipset. But my new USB 2.0 Freecom FS-50 burner was ...
- 11. 466 SE Indigo "Cybook
- (Hardware hints)
- ... coils to Resistor resistor to board ground Now- With The relay pack installed and wired, the Bluetooth and the LEDs Light when the switch is ON. When the Switch is OFF the USB port is ...
- 12. Michael Stein, spiegel.de
- (iBook arguments)
- ... digital video cameras is now also standard on the "iMacs to tgo". . The top model "iBook Special Edition" in a slightly different but still gray outfit ("Graphite") also comes with a built-in DVD-ROM drive, ...
- 13. The Key Lime iBook
- (Trivia)
- ... version (each with Firewire). Unfortunately, the green fades over the years if the iBook is constantly exposed to sunlight, so locking it away when not in use is essential for owners of these rare ...
- 14. Declining value of the clamshell iBook
- (Trivia)
- ... sold on Ebay, this results in an estimated loss in value of a few euros a month since 1999. The used prices of the clamshell iBook have even been rising slightly for a few months, so that one can speak ...
- 15. Jonathan Ive #3, iBook Designer
- (iBook arguments)
- I really like the sleep light. Everyone else's just blink on and off, and they're very mechanical, and this is typical of their design. We wanted to do something that was more animated and fluid - and about ...
- 16. Bill Palmer, BillPalmer.net
- (iBook arguments)
- When Apple retired the clamshell iBook model in favor of the new and boxy "snow white" iBook last year, I lamented the loss of a champion. While the new iBook was a half-inch thinner, a pound lighter, a ...
- 17. iBook heavy and unwieldy ?
- (Trivia)
- ... below with a little girl satirically underlines. With the second iBook generation, Apple not only brought about a complete design change, but also made the iBook smaller, lighter and even cheaper - unfortunately ...
- 18. 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, ...