Consumers would be pleased to know battery life was a whopping 6 hours back then, to allow you not to have to haul your charger to work.ĭesign aesthetics would include the fact the Clamshell would integrate a full size keyboard (and not a dinky one) into the laptop, a handle was attached and there was no latch. He actually displayed a cartoon of a rocket, and explained this was the 2nd fastest portable in the world (second only to their very own Apple high end Powerbook Laptop.) The final point was the 24x CD Rom built into the unit.Īdditionally, slides would show the 56K modem, 10/100 Ethernet and USB as standard.
A crowd cheering point was the 300mhz G3 Processor. Steve went on to explain they had the FASTEST GRAPHICS EVER IN A PORTABLE. The iBook (Clamshell) would have a 12 inch active-matrix TFT display, 800×600 pixel resolution.ĭuring the original introduction three additional key points were made: He continued on to explain that Apple wanted to set the bar as far as the displays went, as they were your window to the internet. This would mimic the version of the G3 Mac’s but loaded, and in portable form.
” He would explain that the answer to the this would be the portable iBook. Steve Jobs announces the iBook at the Mac Conference in June 1999.Īt MacWorld in 1999, Steve Jobs was completing his “four product matrix” and explained that he polled his consumer and educational markets and asked what they wanted.
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