- 1. Unified Motherboard Architecture
- (Trivia)
- ... 100mbit, Ultra DMA). The integration of the controller chips "UniNorth" and "KeyLargo" shows the figure on the Japanese website Medicalmac, the link is a Google translation - or the Apple Developer Notes ...
- 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. Changing the optical drive
- (Hardware hints)
- ... and a spatula. Removing the white spacer pad needs your special attention. The picture shows the attachments (without bezel), which must be dismantled. 6 screws - 4 on the side, 2 on the ribbon cable ...
- 4. Joy of Tech: iBook Clamshell Comics
- (Multimedia)
- ... ever. Perhaps that's why it shows up from time to time in their Comics, i've provided some links to those that are still online: What Apple left out of the Macworld 2006 Keynote Home in the ...
- 5. iBook Clamshell Product Placement: Film Good Advice
- (Multimedia)
- Apple used to promote its products via Product Placement in major TV-Series and Cine films. A paradigm is "Good Advice" (2001) with Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. A Blueberry iBook shows up right after ...
- 6. iBook Apple Expo 2000 Paris
- (Multimedia)
- The duration of this Video of the keynote at the Apple Expo 2000 in Paris is about one hour and twenty minutes and shows again the sales talent of Steve Jobs. The European audience was visibly annoyed ...
- 7. The breathing sleep light
- (Trivia)
- 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 ...
- 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. Clamshell Unboxing Part 3: Accessories Box
- (Trivia)
- ... The non-firewire iBooks had a guide with a red cover. The firewire iBooks had a slightly different guide with a new cover design. An additional Getting started guide shows the setting-up-operation ...
- 10. Clamshell Unboxing Part 2: The contents
- (Trivia)
- The subsequent part of the Clamshell Unboxing series describes the contents of the box. You are on the edge of your seat with anticipation when the assessories box shows up which is placed in a rounded ...
- 11. Clamshell Unboxing Part 1: The covering box
- (Trivia)
- ... edition in September 2000. The longitudinal side shows two different views of the included iBook in its model color which showed up in the print and TV ads every day. A pile of these iBook ...
- 12. Booting from a USB drive
- (Hardware hints)
- ... not considered as a boot device by the Clamshell Boot boot menu which shows up when you press ALT right after powering the iBook. So the clue to the problem is a USB 1.1 compatible chipset - you have to ...
- 13. 256 or 512MB RAM Expansion?
- (Hardware hints)
- ... experience shows that most of the 512MB RAM SO-DIMMs that have 8 Chips will work. 3. Reset. The iBook manual recommends that after the installation of a new memory expansion to press the small reset ...
- 14. Declining value of the clamshell iBook
- (Trivia)
- ... This shows how much the hardware costs for notebooks have fallen in the last 20 years. If one assumes that the iBooks in the original configuration in good condition bring in more than 200 euros when ...
- 15. Online Petition for Clamshell 2
- (Trivia)
- Unfortunately, a lonely little online petition (archived website) to Apple to re-edition the classic iBook with modern components was unsuccessful. Over 400 signatures were collected. Incidentally, ...
- 16. Clamshell Purchase Advisor
- (Hardware hints)
- ... the Internet, you should make sure that the picture shows the item for sale. Some sellers also get confused with the color names, so instead of getting an iBook in Indigo, you could get one in Blueberry. ...