Editing IBook (section)

=== Design ===
[[File:IBook flavors.jpg|thumb|250px|right|iBook G3 ("Clamshell") in all five colors: "Tangerine" and "Blueberry" on the top row, and "Graphite", "Indigo" and "Key Lime" on the bottom row. Key Lime was an [[Apple Store (online)|Apple Online Store]] exclusive.]]

The design was clearly influenced by Apple's consumer desktop, the [[iMac G3|iMac]]. In fact, one of the marketing slogans for the iBook was "iMac to go." The clamshell design also echoed the [[eMate 300]]. Apple continued its trend of using transparent colored plastics for the shell, and released the iBook clamshell series in several colors, starting with Blueberry and Tangerine, later adding Indigo, Graphite and Key Lime colors. However, unlike the [[iMac G3|iMac]], the iBook did not feature pinstripes. Steve Jobs announced that the Key Lime color, "a little less conservative, a little more fun", was exclusive to the [[Apple Store (online)|online Apple Store]]. This resulted in some crowd members booing, to which Jobs replied: "Don't you like buying on the Apple Online Store?"<ref name="KeyLimeKeynote">{{Cite web|author1=EverySteveJobsVideo|title=Steve Jobs introduces OS X Beta & new iBooks – Apple Paris Expo (2000)|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=GNYIYx7QRdc?t=39m20s| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221195424/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNYIYx7QRdc&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=December 21, 2013 | url-status=dead|website=YouTube|access-date=December 23, 2016|date=September 13, 2000}}</ref>

Compared to follow-up iBook and PowerBook notebook computers, the Clamshell iBook proved to be the more reliable model.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/laptops.html |title=MacInTouch Special Reports: iBook and PowerBook Reliability |publisher=Macintouch.com |date=January 3, 2006 |access-date=September 4, 2018 |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012235024/http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/laptops.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The original iBook is on exhibition at the London [[Design Museum]] and the [[Yale University Art Gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/online/jonathan-ive-on-apple/ibook-1999-powermacg4 |title=iBook 1999 + PowerMacG4 – Design, Architecture and Fashion – Design Museum London |publisher=Designmuseum.org |date=November 12, 2014 |access-date=September 4, 2018 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714135108/http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/online/jonathan-ive-on-apple/ibook-1999-powermacg4 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?objectId=78098 Yale University Art Gallery – eCatalogue – iBook G3] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522042946/http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?objectId=78098 |date=May 22, 2012 }}</ref> Vestiges of design ideas first adopted in the iBook G3 can still be seen today: moving interface ports from the back to the sides and leaving them uncovered, omitting a latch for the computer's lid, and providing multiple color options.