- 1. 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 ...
- 2. 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 ...
- 3. It's history repeatin
- (Trivia)
- Years before he moved to San Francisco to join the Apple design team, iBook Designer Jonathan Ive started his designer career in 1990 as a partner of the London agency tangerine. A major customer was the ...
- 4. Codename Toiletseat
- (Multimedia)
- Toilet seat was a nickname for the Clamshell iBook because in their eyes it looked like a comfort station fixture. So a manufacturer of sanitary articles placed an iBook quite innocently on its web pages. ...
- 5. Rowan Dean, Sydney Morning Herald
- (iBook arguments)
- In an industry that values style and fashion, our young company had barely celebrated its first birthday when I realised its technology already looked out of date. The multicoloured clamshell shape of ...
- 6. Michael Simon, maclife.com
- (iBook arguments)
- With equal parts toilet seat, suitcase and clam, the iBook had a funny sort of charm that did little to reflect the personality of the user (unless, of course, they happened to be running away with the ...
- 7. gizmodo.com
- (iBook arguments)
- We heartily agree with Laptop's assessment of the absolute worst notebook design, the Apple iBook from 1999 that most of us thought looked exactly like a toilet seat in a cheap motel. Sure, it was available ...
- 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-PurseĀ or make-up case. In fact, toys later appeared ...