Remembering when laptops could be fun and fixable It is 25 years since Apple's Clamshell iBook G3 arrived, replete with iMac styling and an innovation – optional Wi-Fi connectivity via Apple's ...

THE first Ibook came out around the summer of 2000 during a Mac World conference where all the new and fancy gadgets for Apple are first unveiled. The first generation Ibook had a colourful rubber ...

The AirPort found in the iBook is primitive compared to today’s, of course. It was 802.11b, so it topped out at 11 MBps. It required not only a $299 base station, but a $99 AirPort card that snapped ...

The G3 chip doesn’t draw much power, doesn’t generate much heat and runs Mac OS X just fine. We think the G3 has a lot of life left in it. I don’t know that the latest iBooks will be the ...

The iBook G3 also included a sleep indicator beacon light that indicated when the iBook was asleep or turned off. PowerBook Titanium G4 IDG / Apple.

Ever since Apple Computer Inc. released the iBook G3, Macintosh users have debated the relative merits of the company’s entry-level laptop and its pro line of sleek PowerBook G4s.

A video producer with a 3D printer has been creating and selling a range of iBook G3 iPad conversions – that is, a genuine iBook G3 case modified to hold a 10.9-inch iPad Air or 11-inch iPad Pro ...

There has been a resurgence of reports indicating logic board failures for various iBook G4 models produced within the last two years -- similar to the failures that plagued earlier iBook G3 models.

Everything’s New But the Name. Introduced at Town Hall in 2001, the updated iBook G3 was a huge departure from the curvy, rubber-injected notebook it replaced. The official name of this iBook G3 is ...

And the G4 processor runs hotter than the iBook’s G3, though, of course, the latter packs less performance. When Apple unveiled a 14-inch iBook at Macworld San Francisco, I was a bit surprised.