Today marks the 20th anniversary of Jobs unveiling the fourth and final product in the grid, the iBook, at the 1999 Macworld Expo in New York City. Targeted at consumers and students, the iBook ...

On May 16, 2006, the seven-year production run of the iBook line of laptop computers was coming to an end. Taking its place was the MacBook, which signaled the transition of manufacturer Apple to ...

Five years ago, Apple was selling the iBook G4, a popular entry level notebook that had evolved from the original iMac-inspired iBook from six years prior. The final iBook model was released mid ...

But when staff at YouthAbility thrift store in Arcata, California unearthed a translucent teal clamshell iBook from 1999—and discovered it still powered on—they knew they had stumbled onto ...

Now that Apple has released a 14-inch iBook, some folks are predicting the big screen consumer portable will encroach on sales of Apple’s high-end PowerBook line. To help determine which ...

In a clear effort to boost the appeal of its iBook family to holiday shoppers, Apple cranked up the clock speed on all three models, made AirPort Extreme standard across the line, cut the price of ...

At Macworld New York in July 1999, Steve Jobs walked on stage to complete the famed “Grid of Four” product strategy: The burden of filling that empty spot would fall to the iBook, a computer designed ...

Remember the early PowerBooks of the 1990s? The iBook G3? And of course the biggest news in recent years has been the arrival of MacBooks powered by Apple’s M-series chips in 2021. From the ...

Last month, I took a look at the Clamshell iBook G3, the most colorful notebook Apple ever made. The Clamshell saw just one speed bump, and was replaced in less than two years. The second-generation ...

I was recently gifted an old G3 iBook (Powerbook4,3 with 384 megs of RAM) and after a failed upgrade from 10.2 to 10.4 that broke the operating system, decided to try running OpenBSD 7.0* on it.