Apple iBook Laptop 12.1" M9018LL/A (900-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW 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: B00009APD2
• Item model number: M9018LL/A
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,309 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 a 900 MHz PowerPC G3 processor, a 40 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 combination CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive for playing games and music CDs, and watching your favorite movies, and copying data to CD-R and CD-RW discs. The 900 MHz iBook ships with a 40 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 OS X Edition, Quicken 2003, Sound Studio, and Otto Matic game software.

Product Description

Weighing in at a respectable 4.9 pounds and featuring a 900 MHz PowerPC G3 processor, a 40 GB hard drive, and 256MB of RAM (expandable to 640 MB) 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 combination CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive for playing games and music CDs, and watching your favorite movies, and copying data to CD-R and CD-RW discs. The 900 MHz iBook ships with a 40 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's an appliance!, June 5, 2003

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Marius Piedallu Van Wyk "Lailoken" (Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop 12.1" M9018LL/A (900-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) (Personal Computers)

I knew the Apple machines were userfriendly, but after I bought my first Mac (This 12" iBook) after years of Intel and AMD windows machines I fell in love immediatedly.

The thing that appeals to me most is the fact that everything I needed was already on the machine... I switched it on, and could start work immediatedly.

The iTunes music package is like Windows Media Player, Winamp, CDEX and Nero combined. The mail program looks deceptively simple, but has powerful rules as well as great beysian spam filtering.

But for those of you who want more out of a machine than just pretty... the whole underlying BSD architecture is great! Awsome stability and recoverability. Great networking. (Could have made windows connectivity simpler though...)

The only thing that I find a bit lacking is the 128Mb... and I reccomend that you expand it to at lease 256Mb. (But this is only really nessesary if you have many applications open at the same time)

As for the battery life... I've gotten more than 3 hours out of it once. Not that I ever use it for long periods away from a power connector.

As a microsoft user and a gamer, I just had to get a two-button mouse, and am quite pleased that it worked seamlessly and without a hitch. My original Warcraft III cd installed and played with few problems (only the memory issue... need more...) and quake3 worked like a charm.

Hope this helped you make a choice!

PS: The 12" display is excellent quality, and the size of the iBook 12" makes it sooo easy to move around. I prefer it to the larger models.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Money Spent, July 28, 2003

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Brendanshaw (Wellington, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop 12.1" M9018LL/A (900-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) (Personal Computers)

When investing in a laptop/notebook, it is always difficult to draw a line as to how much to spend. Do you spend a couple of hundred more to get that dvd burner or do you settle with just the cd-rom?
The Apple iBook with DVD-rom/CD-RW combo drive is the best value for money I have experianced. I'm a student and believe me, this was no small investment for myself, however I am extremely glad with the results.

The programs run smoothly and beautifully. While opening 3 or 4 programmes at once is never a good idea on any laptop, the iBook can work its way through with little trouble. I have it just under a year now and it is going wonderfully. All the software on it is excellent and easy to use. There has been no trouble for me in terms of transfering from PC to Mac. The constant updates Apple makes available mean that my software can be kept consantly up to date.
The DVD playback is spectacular for a notebook. The detail is so crisp, its just as good as any tv. You can also see the screen clearly from a much wider angle than most notebooks.
The sound leaves you a bit wanting, but its still pretty good for a notebook.
The battery life is fantastic. Everyone keeps saying they cant rely on their battery life where as my iBook can power on for up to 5 hours if im just working on the net.
The biggest warning I have for buyers is that the networking between my iBook and my universities PC based network has basically been a dead goose. It just doesn't want to register.
It is just such a fun, jam-packed, beautifully presented piece of technology. I cannot imagine ever going back to PC.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid performance, May 12, 2003

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"jbmcgee1" (Roseville, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apple iBook Laptop 12.1" M9018LL/A (900-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) (Personal Computers)

I got my iBook (600 Mhz) a year ago and have been thrilled. I was a PC user before, and decided that it was time to see what else was available. I couldn't have been happier with my choice. I've used the iBook to make movies of my new son, organize my digital photos, program, surf the web wirelessly, manage all my e-mail accounts, and many other things. To put it simply, it works well. I haven't had any problems with it working with my PC and am able to move files back and forth without issue.

You can't go wrong with the iBook. It just works.