- 1. The Little iBook Book
- (Books)
- Taking its cues from the iMac, the sleek new iBook, Apple's Internet-ready and blazingly fast new portable, successfully combines high style and low price, guaranteeing it both buzz and sales. Who better ...
- 2. Interior view: Display hinges
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- Apple Designer Jonathan Ive mentioned in an iBook advertisement film: You will be discovering features and details months into actually owning the product. Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive agreed about the ...
- 3. The breathing sleep light
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- 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 ...
- 4. Codename P1: bMate, WebMate, eBook, iBook?
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- ... new at the portable end of the consumer space" . When Steve Jobs presented the PowerBook Lombard which was part of the professional line in May 1999 he had to put the audience off who was waiting for the ...
- 5. Andrew Gore, Macworld.com
- (iBook arguments)
- Although Apple's consumer portable may be one of the company's most hotly anticipated products ever, the iBook's reality falls short of its media-generated hype. It's not exactly a case of the emperor having ...
- 6. Gadjo C. Sevilla - canadianreviewer.com
- (iBook arguments)
- The Apple Beat: 5 Technologies Apple pioneered that became tech standards …… WiFi - Apple called it AirPort and it debuted with the original clamshell iBooks and the AirPort Base Station which was ...
- 7. Tony Smith, theregister.co.uk
- (iBook arguments)
- ... and follows naturally from the name 'iMac'. An earlier, much-fancied name was 'WebMate', given the machine's anticipated role as a portable Internet access system -- iBook retains that idea, but also ties ...
- 8. Michael Tsai, atpm.com
- (iBook arguments)
- ... portable, but more than people had hoped for. TFT displays and six-hour batteries don’t come cheap, after all. I’m sure Apple is just as disappointed as we are that the iBook won’t be available to start ...
- 9. 30 years of Apple Products, wired.com
- (iBook arguments)
- Announced in July 1999 at Macworld New York, the iBook was perhaps the most anxiously awaited Apple computer ever. Aimed at the same consumer market as its big brother, the iMac, the iBook filled the 2x2 ...
- 10. Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet.co.uk
- (iBook arguments)
- With the iBook, Jobs, Apple's seemingly permanent interim CEO, jumped through a daunting business hoop of his own. He needed one year to create products in four areas (professional and consumer desktops ...
- 11. Ruffin Bailey, lowendmac.com
- (iBook arguments)
- Yet the iBook clamshell remains one of my favorite portable Macs. The great battery life, AirPort, rugged feel, and, yep, even the handle are all reasons it still often makes the WiFi coffee house run ...
- 12. BBC News
- (iBook arguments)
- It's a long way from a toilet laboratory in Chigwell, north London to the heart of Silicon Valley, California. But in eight years, Jonathan Ive has covered this distance to establish himself as one of ...
- 13. Peter Lewis, Fortune magazine
- (iBook arguments)
- Apple's original iBook was the computer equivalent of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's album. With its whimsical toilet-seat design, its fruity colors, including orange, blueberry, and lime, and its built-in ...
- 14. Michael Krantz, time.com
- (iBook arguments)
- Now, in tangerine or blueberry, comes the iBook, Apple's "iMac to go," a clamshell-shaped laptop that promises to do for the portable market what iMac did for the desktop--sell like crazy and leave the rest ...
- 15. Stephen H.Wildstrom, BusinessWeek.com
- (iBook arguments)
- Still, the important news is that Apple has followed up on its iMac success by again becoming a significant innovator in portable computing. At a time when most of the industry is straining to make cookie-cutter ...
- 16. VW Beetle convertible + iBook
- (Trivia)
- ... who are smart sell their portable Mac after the warranty has expired for fear of having to reckon with an expensive total write-off. The alternative would actually be to manufacture products that simply ...
- 17. Charles Moore, macopinion
- (iBook arguments)
- From my perspective, the Pismo and the clamshell iBook were the last Apple portables that were a good prospect for being a long-lasting keeper. Charles Moore, macopinion
- 18. 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 ...