- This system features a brilliant 14.1-inch TFT XGA active-matrix display and razor-sharp 1,024 x 768 resolution.
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Now there's even more to love about Apple's iBook notebook. Weighing in at a respectable 5.9 pounds and featuring a 700 MHz PowerPC G3 processor, a 20 GB hard drive, and 256 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 14.1-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 combo CD-RW/ DVD-ROM drive for playing games and music CDs, as well as for enjoying DVD movies. The 700 MHz iBook ships with a 30 GB hard drive which provides exceptional storage space. In addition, this system comes with the ATI Mobility Radeon graphics accelerator with 16 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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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful,
By Matt "mattfl1" (FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop M8603LL/A (700-MHz PowerPC G3, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)
I just purchased one of these and am extremely pleased. I opted for the iBook instead of the PowerBook for several reasons. First off, the PowerBook puts off way too much heat. I've also heard several complaints of the paint peeling and the slot-loading CD-ROM giving problems. Also, I wasn't ready to drop [dollar amount] on a notebook computer. I was a little hesitant at first to buy something with only a G3 processor, but rest assured, after you upgrade the RAM in this unit, it works like a dream. It runs OS X very nicely (and that's supposed to improve when Apple issues 10.2 [Jaguar]). I regularly use Microsoft Office apps along with Adobe Photoshop, Internet Explorer, etc., the usual stuff. I don't notice it as being any slower than my iMac G4.So anyway, if you're looking for a computer that does it all without a [big]price tag, I highly recommend the iBook.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Seattle PC Guy Goes OS X,
This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop M8603LL/A (700-MHz PowerPC G3, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)
Never in my lifetime did I ever think I would own a Mac. I was smarter than that. I made fun of people who used them. I don't need the simplified GUI, I'm not in the Educational field and rarely do graphic design, so why get one?!?Well wouldn't you know it...as soon as I heard OS X was based on the BSD4.4 kernal, my ears perked up. Throw in a CD Burner, Apache, and all the practical and useful details of the iBook (way to many to outline here) and I was salivating to get my hands on one of these. I first was MCSE certified in the late 90's, switched to Cisco/Networking and am finishing up my CCNP, and am currently a net admin for a major website in Seattle...and yes, I now own a Mac. My relationship with this powerful little computer is mind blowing. I can download mp3's and burn them to disk all on the fly, watch movies in the background while using a terminal window to do network configs. It has a cool little button on the rechargable batteries that lets you tell how full they are without having to turn on the laptop (think Energizer battery meters on AA where you can see if the AA battery is still good or not). The display is beautiful for a 12 inch. I can boot into the Bourne or Korn shell completely bypassing the GUI if need be. And (AWESOME SIDE NOTE) if a GUI app gets stuck, i can "kill -9 pid" from a term window and get back to work (uh, no rebooting like W2K). I have a Cisco Wireless LAN @ home & @ work, and the built in wireless (airport) card works seemlessly between the two. It even picked up signal @ Starbucks on their network. I feel so Elite when I pull out my shiny white glowing ibook @ Starbucks and check my email and chat while eveyone else is stuck in analog mode reading the daily paper. True connectivity and digital bliss in a solid little package. I won't fully give up my W2K laptop (comfort in the familiar), but oddly enough for this apple convert, my time spent on my ibook far exceeds my Windows use...very strange to hear those words coming form my mouth. Now I have all the Linux gurus @ work wondering why they settle for a Dell laptop with Red Hat installed when they could be running a native Unix OS on a laptop that already recognizes the built-in hardware. OS X is a gorgeous environment. Mac's aren't just for teachers and kids anymore! =) Kevin
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
just what you'd expect,
By A Customer
This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop M8603LL/A (700-MHz PowerPC G3, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)
This is my first experience with Mac OS X, so of course I'm very happy. A unix machine that will download pictures from my camera, straight out of the box - what could be better? I've considered a linux system for years, but getting it to work with my various peripherals would be a pain, and I can always dial up to work to use unix. Now I don't have to. The various details of this particular laptop are all fine - much faster than the 700-MHz would seem to indicate when compared to wintel machines, nice big bright screen, cool super drive, easily upgraded RAM, etc. Highly satisfactory.
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