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1.42GHz PowerPC G4, 512MB PC2700 DDR, 60GB ATA/100 HDD, DVD±RW/CD-RW, 14.1-inch TFT XGA, ATI Mobility Radeon 9550, 56K V.92 modem, 10/100BASE-T Ethernet, Bluetooth, Mac OS X 10,4 The Speed of Life

The iBook’s PowerPC G4 processor works hand in hand with Mac OS X to give you a one-two performance punch. Mac OS X features preemptive multitasking that allocates processor cycles on an as-needed basis and protected memory that keeps you up and running even if an application happens to crash. Enhancing the performance of the PowerPC G4 is its aptly named Velocity Engine. The Velocity Engine processes data in huge 128-bit chunks, instead of the smaller 32-bit or 64-bit chunks, and can perform complex calculations two to four times faster than run-of-the-mill PCs.

No Need to Walk Softly

For a laptop, the inside of a backpack presents a jarring environment filled with shifts, bounces and the occasional bump. That’s why Apple engineers designed the iBook G4 from inside out to stand up to the rigors of your strenuous life. Made from ultratough polycarbonate plastic — the same high-grade material used in bulletproof glass — the iBook’s sleek white case resists impact. And inside, a sturdy magnesium frame provides superior strength, while reducing the weight of the iBook G4 to well below that of other full-featured PC notebooks. Rubber mounted and equipped with Sudden Motion Sensor technology that helps protect your data in the event of a drop or fall, the iBook’s hard disk drive lets you store all of your digital goodies and still enjoy peace of mind. What’s more, the iBook has no I/O doors or protruding elements — and no optical drive tray, either — to break or snap off when tucked into a backpack or briefcase.

The new iBook G4 delivers gorgeous 3D images and stunning photorealistic effects — just what you need to enjoy the latest generation of Mac games.

That’s because Apple engineers equipped the new iBook G4 with a powerful, professional-level graphics processor. Using an ATI Radeon 9550 graphics processor with 32 megabytes of dedicated DDR SDRAM and AGP 4X, the iBook G4 delivers blistering 2D, 3D and multimedia graphics performance for today’s most demanding games and applications.

ATI Radeon 9550

The Radeon 9550 features an advanced architecture that delivers blazingly fast performance — over 800 million textured pixels per second. That means you get the most out of fast-action games on the iBook G4. What’s more, the Radeon 9550 renders incredibly realistic graphics, thanks to support from the latest advances in programmability. (Watch in awe how realistically it renders such elements as metals, liquids and wood.) So not only does it deliver a tremendous speed boost, it gives you spectacular 3D images and even more photorealistic effects.

With 32MB of onboard dedicated DDR RAM, the ATI Radeon 9550 with AGP 4X has plenty of memory to give your multimedia applications a boost for rendering 3D graphics on the fly. Large visual elements can refresh themselves swiftly after image manipulations such as filters, blurs and color corrections. And because main memory doesn’t get tied up with graphics processing, you get smoother system performance all around.

See for Yourself

You’ll see the iBook G4 advantages in action when you play games like Freeverse Software’s Airburst Extreme. First of all, iBook G4 gives you options for network gameplay. You can play tethered — taking advantage of built-in 10/100-BASE-T Ethernet to join your fellow combatants over a wired network. Or you can play wirelessly. Thanks to the iBook’s built-in AirPort Extreme capability, you can go head-to-head with your friends — and take advantage of such new features as Voice over IP technology (VoIP) — from just about anywhere in your house at up to 54-Mbps. What’s more, thanks to Mac OS X and the stellar performance offered by the iBook graphics processor, you’ll appreciate superb on-the-road game play and enjoy many new highly detailed environments served up in Airburst Extreme.

Brilliant Resolution

With a brilliant 12.1-inch or 14.1-inch TFT XGA active-matrix display, the iBook is perfect for playing games, editing videos, watching QuickTime movies and managing your digital photo collection. And razor-sharp 1024 by 768 pixel resolution lets you show what you can easily do with iMovie HD, iPhoto and other great applications that excel on the Mac.

And just wait until you try your hand at digital photo editing. Connect a digital camera to one of the iBook USB 2.0 ports and iPhoto will take care of the rest for you, importing your images and helping you organize them. You’ll be editing images like a pro, removing blemishes and red eye, cropping images precisely, creating 4x6 prints on your inkjet printer or ordering them online with just one click.

Wi-Fi Certified

802.11g AirPort Extreme is a powerhouse in the performance department, with the new 802.11g technology delivering a wireless data rate of up to 54 megabits per second (Mbps). The fastest broadband connections typically achieve speeds up to 1.5Mbps. AirPort Extreme, on the other hand, lets you share files with others on your network at speeds of up to 54Mbps — over 35 times faster. And because AirPort Extreme is Wi-Fi certified for 802.11b and 802.11g interoperability (including PCs), you can use your AirPort Extreme-enabled iBook G4 at thousands of wirelessly enabled locations.

Built-in Bluetooth

Bluetooth technology is built into every new iBook G4 model. Bluetooth connects wirelessly to digital devices such as Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, handhelds and peripherals. What’s more, you can even choose to enjoy a cable-free desktop with Apple’s Bluetooth-enabled wireless keyboard and mouse. Operating within a short range, it enables wireless data transfers between a rapidly growing list of Bluetooth-savvy peripherals. Using iSync and Bluetooth, for instance, you can synchronize personal information between your iBook, your mobile phone and your Palm OS-based handheld.

When it comes to surfing the Internet, getting your email, chatting with friends and colleagues, playing CDs, transferring your favorite music to your computer and organizing it into playlists, playing games and managing your growing library of digital photos, iBook G4 provides you with all of the software you need. And more.

Start a Revolution on Your Laptop

Every iBook comes standard with Mac OS X Tiger, the world’s most advanced operating system. Instantly find what you’re looking for. Get information with a single click. Mac OS X Tiger delivers more than 200 new features which make it easier than ever to find, access and enjoy everything on your iBook.

Find Anything, Fast

Tiger introduces Spotlight, the lightning-fast search technology that illuminates every corner of your Mac. Search everything on your system: Files, emails, contacts, images, movies, calendars and applications appear instantly. Spotlight results include all the metadata inside files — the “what, when and who” of everything on your Mac — including the kind of content, author, file size and many more details.

Get Info in a Dash

The new Dashboard hosts nifty widgets that appear instantly and keep you up to date with timely information from the Internet. View stocks, check weather forecasts, track flights, convert currency and units of measure, even look up businesses in the phone book. Your favorite widgets appear with up-to-the-second information, then disappear just as easily, so you can get back to what you were doing.

Make a Connection

Tiger makes your Mac a communications hub. Safari for Tiger features built-in RSS feed detection and display. Mail and Address Book incorporate Spotlight technology to help you stay organized. And iChat AV lets you hold video and audio conferences or send instant messages. Add a .Mac account for iDisk storage, a mac.com email address, your own home page and powerful syncing capability.

Enjoy iLife ’05

Make a movie of baby’s first steps, graduation or wedding, instantly. Just plug in your camcorder and iMovie HD does the rest. Share it with friends and family via email, the web or DVD with iDVD. Or play it on your HDTV. Download songs from the iTunes Music Store. Make a mix playlist for your next house party or let iTunes deejay by using the Party Shuffle feature. Design your own iPhoto coffee-table book using the photos from your parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. Email photos of your graduation to the entire family. Record a song for that special someone in your life — then burn it to an audio CD as a gift. Play your latest guitar riffs at a party, backed by GarageBand and your Mac. Create a soundtrack for your iPhoto slideshow or iMovie project. Post your iMix of love songs on the iTunes Music Store for the world to enjoy. Back up an entire season of soccer photos on CD or DVD.

Do More

Use your iBook to balance your checkbook with Quicken 2005. Go on a fact-finding mission in the World Book Encyclopedia, which features thousands of QuickTime movies, sound clips, digital images and over 20,000 articles. Fly a pterodactyl in Nanosaur 2 or navigate a challenging maze in Marble Blast Gold. Test drive Microsoft Office, the premier productivity suite, which includes Entourage X, Excel X, Word X and PowerPoint X, free for 30 days. Use AppleWorks 6 to write a book report.

The DVD-burning SuperDrive turns your 14-inch iBook G4 into a mobile creative studio, ready to burn DVDs you can play on virtually any commercial DVD player.

Play It Again, Sam

We call the optical drive in our top-of-the-line 14-inch iBook G4 a SuperDrive because it allows you to do so much. Quickly install applications from CD-ROM discs. Watch Hollywood’s latest films on DVD and see how great the special effects look on iBook’s brilliant display. Play music CDs. And import your favorite songs and albums into iTunes, where you can organize them into playlists to suit every mood and occasion.

Create Your Own DVDs

Every iBook comes with iDVD. One of the members of the stellar suite of iLife ’05 applications, iDVD provides a simple interface for assembling a DVD that holds up to two hours of movies and thousands of digital images. You can create menus with up to six navigation buttons over full-motion backgrounds. iDVD comes with an array of professionally designed themes and also lets you create your own. The MPEG-2 encoder in iDVD and the Mac OS X architecture combine to provide fast encoding and accelerated DVD recording.

And once you burn your projects to a DVD, you can pop them in the mail and send them to friends and family. That’s because the DVDs the SuperDrive creates can be played on most consumer DVD players.

See to CDs

The SuperDrive gives you plenty of options when it comes to burning CDs, too. Let’s start with the most common activity: burning an audio CD. iTunes makes it point-and-click simple to burn your favorite playlists onto ubiquitous write-once CD-R discs. In fact, you can easily burn either standard music or MP3 discs in iTunes using the SuperDrive.

CD/DVD stack

The SuperDrive also writes to CD-RW media, discs that can be erased and then written to again. They offer the same capacity as CD-R discs, but because they can be written to multiple times, they’re a great option for sharing large files or projects with others.

Archive Your Digital Life

Optical discs are ideal for backup because they offer huge capacity in a format that’s both easy to store and lasts a long time. CDs can hold up to 650MB of data, more than 450 times as much as a floppy disk. DVDs can store a mind-boggling 4.7GB of data, the equivalent of about 18 Zip 250 disks or 3200 floppy disks. (In case you’re interested, that’s a stack of floppies over 40 feet high.) With this kind of capacity, you can easily back up your entire digital photo collection, thousands of MP3 files or your iMovie HD projects — and store them safely for years.