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Average customer rating: 4.5

An excellently thought out, extremely portable machine
I LOVE IT, NOOOOO PROBLEMS
A mellow review
Great machine!
why did i wait?

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Apple iBook Notebook M8861LL/A (800-MHz PowerPC G3, 128 MB RAM, 30 GB Hard Drive)

Manufacturer: Apple Computer
Product Group: Personal Computer
Binding: Personal Computers
ASIN: B00007DWC3

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Product Description

iBook has all the speed, storage, graphics, and software you're looking for right out of the box. It's small and light enough to slip in a backpack; it's tough enough to travel the world; and its long-lasting battery goes for hours. With powerful and innovative applications for sharing digital photos, managing your music, creating movies, or chatting online with friends, iBook is built for your digital life on the road.With up to 6 hours of battery life, weighing as little as 4.9 pounds, and measuring slim 1.3 inches, iBook is made for life on the go. A PowerPC G3 processor running at up to 800MHz with a whopping 512K L2 cache gives you the power to zip through your email and surf your favorite websites. An ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics accelerator with up to 32MB of dedicated memory brings graphics vividly to life. A built-in combo drive lets you burn CDs, watch DVDs, listen to music, and play video games. FireWire and USB automatically recognize printers, cameras, MP3 players, and other peripherals. With built-Ethernet and modem, connecting to the Internet is a snap. Access the Internet from home, the office, airports, or cafes with AirPort, and connect to Bluetooth-enabled PDAs and mobile phones with an optional Bluetooth adapter - all without the hassle of cables.

Amazon.com Product Description

Now there's even more to love about Apple's iBook notebook. 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--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 combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive for playing games and music CDs and enjoying DVD movies. 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 graphics accelerator with 32 MB of VDRAM and AGP 2x support for gorgeous 3-D graphics.

The iBook also comes loaded with iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, and iDVD application software, making it easier than ever before to manage your digital images, video, and music.

Customer Reviews:

An excellently thought out, extremely portable machine.......2003-04-25

I love apple for their attention to design detail. From a power adapter that can be both a brick, or attach a longer cord, to batteries whose charge you can check without turning on the computer, to the built in high quality wireless, everything about this computer is fit and finish.

The software suite is excellent, with Apple's iApps providing a top notch integrated environment for working with digital media. The digital camera/booklet printing integration is particularly impressive, allowing you to produce high quality coffee table books out of your vacation snapshots.

Although not as fast feeling as other computers, once I upgraded the included RAM, the operations felt almost snappy, and it's been a dream to use.

I LOVE IT, NOOOOO PROBLEMS.......2003-04-14

I love it, no problems!! I recommend, starting with OS 10.2 or higher and get rid of anything less than that! Also, get the airport and airport card. Wireless internet, it's fantastic!!

A mellow review.......2003-03-24

Will this computer change your life? I hope not too drastically. I have found after using this computer for just over 6 months I am really glad I bought it. I had a dell and gateway laptop before I bought the ibook and I have found the ibook is more user friendly.

I use my ibook to organize pictures, hold mp3's, make family movies, surf the web, and do presentations for my master's program. It does all these tasks with no problems. The software makes sence, of course it will take time to adjust to the format. Three days after I bought the ibook I was very unsure of my choice but it really has grown on me. All the "i"programs are very easy to use and I have not found that true on my pc desktop. You will love imovie, though my co workers do think I am a dork. : ) I love the wireless airport. Surfing from the couch is very convient.

The negatives.... This is not a gamer's laptop. It doesn't have amsome firepower and I can't play Quake on it. But, I don't play quake. Hoyle's card games do it for me or I use my ps2. It will scratch, get used to it, it still will turn heads and everybody will "eeww and ahhh." Virtual PC is great, but you still will not be able to play pc games well.

This is a great family computer. It is light and does everything I could ask everytime. It is a quality product and one of the very few things I have bought that 6 months later I am still thrilled I bought it. I hope you enjoy it as well.

Great machine!.......2003-02-07

I upgraded to this from a 500mhz iBook and find it to be very responsive. Setup was a breeze -- I swapped out my Airport card from my old machine and was surfing the web wirelessly in less than 5 minutes, as well as printing wirelessly to my USB printer. With OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), I don't even need an Airport Base Station. I have an Airport card in our G3 iMac, which is connected to a cable modem, and configured Jaguar in the iMac (with once click) to share its high-speed connection with the iBook. I also downloaded the latest versions of iPhoto and iMovie and have been having a blast applying the "Ken Burns Effect" to our Christmas pictures.

That's why I love OS X and my iBook -- they make it so easy to do amazing stuff.

If you want a great little machine that has great price/performance ratio and can go with you anywhere, then buy this iBook. My only advice would be to up the RAM, at least to 256MB.

why did i wait?.......2003-02-03

i dumped windows years ago, and have been using linux since. linux is nice, and the major headaches windows gave me were fixed by linux, but linux introduces a whole new share of headaches....

i have wanted to try a mac since OS X came out, but they are so pricey, right? wrong! sure you can get a cheaper laptop, but find one with 3-5 hours battery time and a CDRW/DVD for this price. there are none. then notice this thing is smaller than the closest competitor, and faster too. don't buy the mghz myth. this 800 speed laptop with only 128 RAM does most things faster than the 1.8 pentium desktop i compared it to. it is wonderful. and the design is sleek! just buy it and take it out to do a little writing in park or take it to class with you. strangers come up and ask to touch it. it turns heads.

as others have mentioned, this (and all macs) are not hardcore game machines. you want a game machine? buy a playstation. far cheaper than a computer. you want a headache, buy anything with windows installed. you want it to just work. buy a mac.

OS X is incredible. unix power and stability, but mac easy. that beats windows easy any day. just plug it in and it is ready! print? plug in the printer and hit "print"! wizards? install disks? forget it! just plug and work. forget plug and pray.

don't do what i did. don't regret spending $$$$ on RAM and video cards a monitors only to find apple had the answer all along. switch now. save the cash.

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