- 1. German Plastics Museum: Plastic components of the iBook
- (Trivia)
- A Blueberry iBook is on display in the German Plastics Museum in Oberhausen in the virtual collection "Plastic Icons", which is also on tour as an exhibition. We learn that polycarbonate, acrylonitrile ...
- 2. 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 ...
- 3. The leaf is missing
- (Hardware hints)
- ... for my brother-in-law, and just this little blue leaf was missing. When i was cleaning up my daughter's room i found a plastic pearl in a beautiful shade of blue. The pearl was melted with a small burner ...
- 4. Keyboard mod: white vs. bronze
- (Hardware hints)
- ... got one of these, so you have to try yourself. My tool for removing the keycaps is a small screwdriver. You can slip under the plastics and lift it carefully. The larger keys like SPACE or RETUR ...
- 5. Luminiscent Apple Mod
- (Hardware hints)
- ... article. After you have removed the plastic bezel, you have go on with four Phillips screws which are lined up on on the rear side. There are only four more screws to go - dont remove them, ...
- 6. iCurve- the invisible laptop stand
- (Accessories)
- Back in 2002 Griffin released the iCurve, a nearly invisible laptop stand which was made of a single bar of crystal clear plastic. The elegant and curvy design matches the Clamshell in a perfect way. ...
- 7. iBook Display Case Skin Mod
- (Hardware hints)
- Create a unique iBook: The transparent polycarbonate plastic case of the non firewire editions in tangerine, blueberry and graphite is a good picture frame for your own special motive, for example the ...
- 8. 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. ...
- 9. Clamshell Unboxing Part 2: The contents
- (Trivia)
- ... is an additinal package with desiccants fixed to the box. For the photo, the transparent plastic cover of the iBook has been removed in advance. The next photo shows the plastic wrap with the seal ...
- 10. 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 ...
- 11. Herbert Muschamp, New York Times
- (iBook arguments)
- ... could be the symbols of this show. With their lollipop colors, swelling lines and toylike ease of operation, they hark back to the sexy red plastic Valentine typewriter Sottsass designed for Olivetti in ...
- 12. Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
- (iBook arguments)
- ... series of extraordinary, wildly postmodern machines. With their translucent, candy-coloured plastics and, in the case of the desktops, large, inviting handles, they had an almost overpowering tactile quality. ...
- 13. Chris Taylor, Time Magazine
- (iBook arguments)
- Intended as a kind of portable iMac, the two-year-old iBook started life as a bulky, gaudy rubberized clamshell that barely fit into backpacks, with a carry-case plastic handle and choice of colors that ...