- 500-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 15 GB hard drive
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Now there's even more to love about Apple's iBook notebook. Weighing in at an easily portable 4.9 pounds and featuring a 500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor, a 15 GB hard drive, and 128 MB of RAM (expandable to 640 MB)--plus AirPort wireless networking and FireWire, USB, and Ethernet ports--the iBook connects to hundreds of peripherals designed to fit your life.
This system features a brilliant 12.1-inch TFT XGA active-matrix display and razor-sharp 1,024 x 768 resolution. It's the perfect place for doing everything from working on spreadsheets to displaying your movies and digital pictures in millions of colors (incidentally, the iBook display scales down beautifully, again with millions of colors, for special games and applications optimized for 800 x 600 or 640 x 480 resolutions).
Included is a CD-ROM drive for playing games and music CDs, as well as the option to upgrade with a DVD-ROM for enjoying DVD movies. The 500 MHz iBook ships with a 15 GB Ultra ATA hard disk drive, or upgrade to an optional 30 GB hard drive for even more storage space. In addition, this system comes with the ATI Rage Mobility 128 graphics accelerator with 8 MB of SDRAM and AGP 2x support for gorgeous 3-D graphics.
The iBook also comes loaded with iPhoto, the cool new software application in the easy-to-use tradition of iTunes, iMovie, and iDVD. iPhoto makes it a snap to manage your digital pictures. You can present them in a full-screen slide show (accompanied by your favorite music), e-mail them to your family and friends, print them on your inkjet printer, order Kodak prints over the Internet, or have them made into custom-printed, linen-bound books.
In addition to handling digital photos with ease, the iBook lets you make your own movies--and show them anywhere. Capture digital video footage on your DV camcorder and turn it into engaging movies with the iMovie 2 software that comes pre-installed. iMovie lets you transfer video clips from your digital camcorder to your hard disk, using the included FireWire port. Use iMovie to snip out the boring parts and enhance the best parts with cool effects, transitions, and titles. Then add a great soundtrack and you're done. Now watch your finished movies full-screen on your iBook or use the iMovie Export feature to select from a range of predefined QuickTime formats for creating and sharing movies. You can, for example, compress your movies so you can burn them onto a CD or post them on the Internet, or use the VGA video output port (for video mirroring on an external display) and an AV port to show your movies and presentations on a big-screen TV or projector (just add an optional Apple AV cable).
For those interested in audio as well as video applications, the iBook comes with iTunes 2, the software that lets you convert (or "rip") the songs on your music CDs to MP3 format, simply by clicking a button. iTunes compresses CD-quality audio files to about a tenth of their original size with very little loss in audible quality. These significantly smaller file sizes enable you to store thousands of songs on your iBook's hard disk drive.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A truly impressive lap top,
By A Customer
This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop M8597LL/A (500-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 15 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)
This is an incredible lap top for the price. I have this iBook and a Dell Inspiron. Both do the same stuff, but the iBook is lighter, more portable, the battery lasts for 4 hours. All for half the price of the Dell. I am really very impressed. The iBook is a truly portable computer, and a very useful one: you may burn your own CD's, watch a DVD, and also the Microsoft Office for Mac runs very fast in this computer, so you may make a presentation, write a book, or do anything you want. Did I mention that it had preloaded three spectacular 3D games? The "bang for the buck" ratio is unbelievable.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love the iBook,
By A Customer
This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop M8597LL/A (500-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 15 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)
The iBook is very easy to use and has enough power to store and run everything I have needed. I even store all of my digital pictures on it and have enough memory left to run programs at full speed. Connecting to internet is easy as well. I love my iBook!!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't buy this computer,
By Tom Fernandes (Gloucester, MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop M8597LL/A (500-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 15 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)
If you have lived your whole life in the shadow of Microsoft then you will truly understand how foolish you were to wait this long to buy the i book. I have a PC, laptop, and now an i book, and recently set up a wireless network. Using an SMC7004AWBR router to work off of my PC, it took me about 2 hours to configure both my PC and laptop to work correctly. On the ibook, it took me all of 2 minutes to install the air port card, 5 minutes to install the software, and another minute to restart the machine and have it autoconfigure to the wireless network. This has been the same story on every application or change with using this i book so far. Without a doubt I am a closet mac fan now.
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