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The Apple iBook G3 (Late 2001)

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About this computer

The design used by this model departed drastically from the famous "Clamshell" iBook G3s Apple produced previously, and returned to a more classical-looking laptop shape, albeit with some interesting quirks: the outer shell is made entirely from a transparent plastic (great at attracting scratches, as my particular unit so helpfully shows) that's coated in a white paint from the inside.

Interestingly enough this model would have been one of the very first Macs to come with OS X from the factory (according to EveryMac that would have been version 10.0.4), alongside Mac OS 9.1, though that only applied to later releases of this computer: early units just came with Mac OS 9.1.

I got my specific unit from a friend of mine. Sadly it's not in the best of shape: some of the keys on it are missing, there are a lot of scratches on the plastic and originally the factory-installed DVD drive didn't work, so I had to swap in another one which unfortunately didn't fit as well as the original one, however it meant that I could reinstall Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.

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