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Apple powers up iBook line
Apple on Tuesday unveiled a new line of G4 iBooks featuring faster processors, bolstered memory, and two types of built-in wireless connectivity.
The 12-inch iBook offers a 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 processor and starts at $999, while the 14-inch notebook is powered by a 1.42GHz processor for $1,299. Both come with 512MB of memory.
The new iBooks also feature two popular Apple technologies from the PowerBook G4 line: the scrolling TrackPad, which speeds scrolling through long Web pages, and the Sudden Motion Sensor, designed to protect a spinning hard drive if the notebook is dropped.
In addition, the notebooks' wireless capabilities are improved with both built-in Bluetooth 2.0 and AirPort Extreme 54Mbps 802.11g wireless. Bluetooth 2.0 features Enhanced Data Rate technology, which promises as much as three times great data rates for connecting to peripheral devices.
The new iBooks also include built-in 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet for high-speed networking, two USB 2.0 ports, and one FireWire 400 port. The notebooks ship with Mac OS X version 10.4, also called Tiger.
Posted by Cathleen Moore on July 26, 2005 04:56 PM
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