- 1. Tulip Ego - The Clamshell Clone
- (Trivia)
- In spring 2006, the Dutch computer manufacturer Tulip released the Ego (Link: Wayback Machine) - which cheekily copied and varied the iBook clamshell design. Performance data: AMD Turion 64-bit CPU, ...
- 2. Frontpages of German MacMagazin, Macup, Maclife
- (Trivia)
- Here are the frontpages of some German Mac magazines in 1999 and 2000 when the original iBook and the two revisions were released.
- 3. Will my iBook run OS 8.6?
- (Software hints)
- When the original iBook in Tangerine and Blueberry was presentesd by Steve Jobs on July 21 in 1999 it came with Mac OS 8.6. Only a couple of months later in October the new OS9 was released. According ...
- 4. 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. ...
- 5. Film: Thriller The Glass House featuring Tangerine iBook
- (Multimedia)
- "The Glass House" is a Thriller directed by Daniel Sackheim and was released in 2001. Young Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane und Stellan Skarsgard had the leading parts. The girl used a Tangerine iBook with ...
- 6. Harddisks larger than 128GB
- (Hardware hints)
- The ATA-4 controller working in the Clamshell iBook is not able to take advantage of drives larger than 128GB. Apple states that -as a guideline- all Macs released after June 2002 can address larger hard ...
- 7. Tribute to emate 300
- (Trivia)
- In March 1997 Apple released the Emate 300 for 800 $ - it was bigger than a PDA and smaller than a laptop. The emate ran the Newton operating system, the battery life was up to 20 hours. The display had ...
- 8. Consumer vs. Pro: Pricing of iBook and PowerBook
- (Trivia)
- ... than $ 1599 in the USA! The picture shows a printed advertising of the distributor GRAVIS in the german magazine MacUp 10/99. The PowerBook G3 333Mhz (Bronze Keyboard) which was released in ...
- 9. Is the iBook a Girlie-Computer ?
- (Trivia)
- As soon as the new iBook was released in 1999, the revolutionary design met with criticism. The columnist John C. Dvorak, (PC Magazine) wrote a pamphlet which contained well known sexist stereotypes: ...
- 10. Marina Go, womensagenda.com.au
- (iBook arguments)
- ... she was using. Apple had released a handbag-shaped 'Clamshell' iBook G3 and Carrie had one. Graeme tracked one down for me. It no longer works but I can never throw it out. Irrational? Absolutely. Marina ...
- 11. 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, ...