- 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. 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 ...
- 3. 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 ...
- 4. 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. ...
- 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. Jonathan Ive #1, iBook designer
- (iBook arguments)
- There is a tendency for designers to understand the use of a product soley in terms of what happens between its being switched on and off. Convinced that carrying the product also defined an important ...
- 7. iBook heavy and unwieldy ?
- (Trivia)
- The clamshell iBook was larger than a Powerbook due to its round shape. Due to the rubberized edges and the rounded polycarbonate housing, the iBook should be able to withstand the high stresses of everyday ...
- 8. the iBook Designer Jonathan Ive
- (Trivia)
- ... largely of durable polycarbonate, which is additionally rubberized at the edges. The built-in trackpad and the full-size keyboard allow you to work without tiring thanks to the palm resting area. The ...