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iBook Q&A - Revised June 12, 2007
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Who designed the iBook?
Apple's industrial design for the last several years has been performed entirely in-house by Apple's Industrial Design Group, led by Jonathan Ive.
Not really. A "subnotebook" is generally considered to be a small notebook that weighs less than four pounds.
The "Clamshell" iBook models certainly are not "subnotebooks" as they are large and weigh 6.7 pounds. The subsequently released 12-Inch "white" iBook systems weigh 4.9 pounds and are considerably smaller than the original iBook design, but still would not be considered "subnotebooks" by many people. The 14-Inch iBook models weigh 0.8 of a pound less than the "Clamshell" models (5.9 pounds compared to 6.7 pounds), but are slightly larger still, and definitely not "subnotebooks" either.
What colors did the early "Clamshell" iBook models use?
The iBook G3/300 (Original/Clamshell) uses a "blueberry" (royal blue) or "tangerine" (orange) and "ice" white case, the iBook G3/366 SE (Original/Clamshell) uses a "graphite" (gray) and "ice" white case, the iBook G3/366 (Firewire/Clamshell) uses an "indigo" (dark blue) and "ice" white or outlandish "key lime" (lime green) and "ice" white case, and the iBook G3/466 SE (Firewire/Clamshell) uses a "graphite" (gray) and "ice" white or "key lime" (lime green) and "ice" white case.
All subsequent iBook models used far more subtle "ice" white case designs.
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