Apple iBook Laptop M8599LL/C (600-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive)

by Apple

Product Details

Product Manual [7.85mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 11.2 x 1.4 inches ; 4.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005V5YT
• Item model number: M8599LL/C
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 7, 2002

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Now there's even more to love about Apple's iBook notebook. Weighing in at an easily portable 4.9 pounds and featuring a 600 MHz PowerPC G3 processor, a 20 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 600 MHz iBook ships with a 20 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast, Faster, Fastest!!, April 1, 2002

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"millergem" (West Hollywood, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop M8599LL/C (600-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)

I added 256 Mb RAM to the basic rig (128 Mb), and it's by far the fastest computer that I've ever owned! Can't wait to get it up to 630 when I get some more 'ducats'. And because I travel so much (twice weekly), the portability and, better yet, the DVD-ability are '...The [best]!' I'm stoked...can't recommend it highly enough! If you can spring for an extra battery ..., you've got it made on longer flights.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best computer I've ever owned, February 17, 2002

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Michael Loader (Toronto, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop M8599LL/C (600-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)

This is my 11th computer and the best one I've ever owned. It's also the first one I've been excited to use in years. I can't recommend it highly enough.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The CD R/W is too slow, August 18, 2002

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Ian Hartford (Orange City, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop M8599LL/C (600-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)

The 4x write on the CDR means it takes over 20 minute to create a CD! The standard these days on a entry level product like this is 16x. And because the CPU is so slow you can't do anything while it is creating the CD. I was not impressed.