Apple iBook Laptop 12.1" M8758LL/A (800-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 30 GB Hard Drive, CD-ROM Drive)

by Apple

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 11.2 x 1.4 inches ; 4.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009APD1
• Item model number: M8758LL/A
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,190 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 22, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Weighing in at a respectable 4.9 pounds and featuring an 800 MHz PowerPC G3 processor, a 30 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. The 800 MHz iBook ships with a 30 GB hard drive that provides exceptional storage space. In addition, this system comes with the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics accelerator with 32 MB of DDR SDRAM and AGP 2x support for gorgeous 3-D graphics.

The iBook also comes loaded with Mac OS X, iMovie, iTunes, AppleWorks, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator, Adobe Acrobat Reader, FAXstf, AOL Instant Messenger (preview), WORLD BOOK Max OSX Edition, Quicken 2003, Sound Studio, and Otto Matic game software.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ibook: sturdier then the G4 notebook, July 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop 12.1" M8758LL/A (800-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 30 GB Hard Drive, CD-ROM Drive) (Personal Computers)

Being in graduate school I see a lot of laptops making there way to and from school. The functionality of the ibook is quite respectable for the price and the 12.1 screen is quite sufficient for school work. But, what is particular nice about the ibook, is its solid construction; built like a little tank! Last semester, 3 fellow students broke their G4 notebooks and those of us with ibooks didn't lose a single one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate computer companion, December 2, 2004

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Evan Kleiman "Evan Kleiman" (Newtown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop 12.1" M8758LL/A (800-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 30 GB Hard Drive, CD-ROM Drive) (Personal Computers)

As a writer for LowEndMac (http://www.lowendmac.com/), I know my Mac. I've had this comptuer for a few months now and absolutely love it! While it's not my main computer, I use it to take to class and around campus. Paired with an AirPort card it's awesome. For the price, this provides every I'd ever need. The small size is great to take around campus or anywhere, and everyone thinks it's so cute!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely spectacular!, February 28, 2004

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"corman842" (Lansdale, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop 12.1" M8758LL/A (800-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 30 GB Hard Drive, CD-ROM Drive) (Personal Computers)

First thing I should mention: I bought this laptop at a spectacular sale price. I paid $729 for this machine with 640mb of RAM (maxed out) and an Airport card with it. I highly recommend that you do max it out. I played with the 128mb version of this in Compusa and I noticed it to be significantly slower. When maxed out, this machine will run significantly faster than my 1.67Ghz Windows XP desktop in any task you will throw at it. On top of that, the Mac OS is far superior to anything ever put out by Microsoft. It's stable, easy to use, it just works. I have OS X Panther on this and I highly recommend it. I could never live without Expose, Apples far superior answer to the PC bar at the bottom. For those who are not familiar with it, this new feature in Panther will allow you to push F9 on the keyboard and show every window that is open. It will show exactly what is happening in that window at the moment, meaning that if I were to have a video running on it, the video would play on the tiny window as I look for the window I want. I click the window and it goes back to normal, only with that window on top. VERY USEFUL.
Besides that, this machine is very well designed. The ports are on the side, no more reaching behind to plug it in. Its got a thick layer of plastic casing, yet is just over an inch thick. The 12 inch screen is amoung the clearest I've ever seen, and is suprisingly easy to use. The speakers are just okay, but you don't buy a laptop for speakers anyway. The snow colored design is absolutly beautiful, and is a nice plus. The screen is on a solid bar, not one of those flimsy PC hinges. This is the most solidly built, yet lightest, thinnest, most compact laptops I've ever owned or used. I have had several PC laptops before this one, and this is, by far, the best machine I have ever owned.
By the way, the battery life on this machine is, to sum it up in one word, unbelievable. I can get about 4 hours of battery life while watching VIDEOS on this, surfing the web I can get upwards of four and a half or more! The low power consumption of the G3 processor makes this an ultra-portable machine.
For those who are considering switching. Don't be discouraged by the OS right away. It is something you will need to get used to, but after a few days you will never know how you ever lived without it. I now go back to my PC and just absolutly despise it every second I use it. I have now gotten used to the Mac and enjoy it more than I ever did with my PC. You know what they say, once you've gone Mac, you don't ever go back.

Well, to sum it up, this machine is perfect. I have yet to come across any sort of flaw whatsoever. Mac has thought this thing through, their attention to detail is amazing. Everything down to the little hook that comes out just as you close the lid to lock it shut has been designed perfectly. This isn't something that has just been scrapped together by Dell or something, this is a powerful piece of computing genius that has been designed for people out to make the intelligent choice for their computing needs. If you're stupid, go the ways of the PC world and conform to the ways of Bill Gates If you're smart, buy a Mac, you won't regret it. I guarantee!