iBookClamshell

There are many of us that are big fans of the Clamshell iBooks. I won’t go into my personal reasons, you either love them or hate them. I have had a few over the years and still to this day I enjoy using them. I especially love going out and watching how people react to [...]

Here’s a description of a bezel mod I did on my ibook 366 (Indigo). I installed a Toshiba SD-R2512 DVD/CDRW optical drive and rather than leaving a gapeing hole and/or a mix-matched bezel in the side, I refitted the orig. bezel onto the new drive. This was an important consideration for me as I feel [...]

The ATA-4 controller working in the iBook Clamshell is not able to take advantage of drives larger than 128GB. Apple states that -as a guideline- all Macs released after June 2002 can address larger hard disks.
If a 160GB hard drive is installed, the Clamshell will only recognize it as a 128GB HDD. If you want [...]

Introduced: September 2000
Terminated: May 2001
CPU
CPU: PowerPC 750cx
CPU Speed: 366/466 MHz
FPU: integrated
Bus Speed: 66 MHz
Data Path: 64 bit
ROM: 1 MB ROM + 3 MB toolbox ROM loaded into RAM
RAM
RAM Type: PC66 SO-DIMM
Minimum RAM Speed: 66 MHz
Onboard RAM: 64 MB
RAM slots: 1
Maximum RAM: 320 MB (Apple) 576 MB (self install)
Level 1 Cache: 32 kB data, 32 kB [...]

Introduced: September 1999
Terminated: September 2000

CPU
CPU: PowerPC 750
CPU Speed: 300 MHz
FPU: integrated
Bus Speed: 66 MHz
Data Path: 64 bit
ROM: 1 MB ROM + 3 MB toolbox ROM loaded into RAM
RAM
RAM Type: SO-DIMM
Minimum RAM Speed: 100 MHz
Onboard RAM: 32/64 MB
RAM slots: 1
Maximum RAM: 288/320 MB
Level 1 Cache: 32 kB data, 32 kB instruction
Level 2 Cache: 512 kB backside, [...]

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I’ve been using a Mac to some capacity since grade school. I bought my first mac (a Core2Duo MacBook) in late 2006 and I’ve been a convert [...]