Was at CompUSA today and a customer had her old ibook in the Mac section
getting something fixed or something. It caught my eye because it had
this nice looking, shiny, almost silver color on the inside (palm rest
area and border around screen), the outside was white. No, it definitely
wasn't a powerbook. Asked her about it and she said it was an older
version ibook. This color and finish obviously looks 10 times better,
somewhat similar to the powerbook almost. Sitting next to the present
ibook, it made the new one look cheap and ugly. Why would Apple change
what obviously looks much better? Cheaper plastic now? Afraid it would
cut down on powerbook sales too much? Does anyone know what year they
changed to the dull cheaper looking white? I want to but one. The
strange thing is, all the pictures Apple uses in ibook ads now, still
has the old shiny silverish color even though they switched to the dull
white! Is it possible that this better finish is still used on some now
and some are dull white??

Jim wrote:

> it had this nice looking, shiny, almost silver color on the inside
> (palm rest area and border around screen), the outside was white. No,
> it definitely wasn't a powerbook. Asked her about it and she said it
> was an older version ibook. This color and finish obviously looks 10
> times better, somewhat similar to the powerbook almost. Sitting next
> to the present ibook, it made the new one look cheap and ugly.

Contrast that to my own opinion:

"it had this tawdry-looking fake metallic color on the inside. The
purity of the white interior of my new ibook makes the old one look
like a Fisher-Price knockoff. The metallic coating also had an
irritating, rough feel."

Not sure where the "obviously" comes from after all, Jim.

-Greg

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Thank you very much for all the info, the website was especially helpful.
Jim

Wojciech Orlinski wrote:
>
> In <3F026406.D01E077D[at]prodigy.net> Jim wrote:
>
> > was an older version ibook. This color and finish obviously looks 10
> > times better, somewhat similar to the powerbook almost. Sitting next
> > to the present ibook, it made the new one look cheap and ugly. Why
> > would Apple change what obviously looks much better? Cheaper plastic
> > now? Afraid it would cut down on powerbook sales too much? Does anyone
> > know what year they changed to the dull cheaper looking white?
>
> In November 2002 the iBook line consisted of the low-end "opaque" model
> with 700 MHz and high-end "crystal" machines with 800 MHz. In April 2003
> the whole iBook line got some speed bump and opaque look.
>
> > I want
> > to buy one. The strange thing is, all the pictures Apple uses in ibook
> > ads now, still has the old shiny silverish color even though they
> > switched to the dull white! Is it possible that this better finish is
> > still used on some now and some are dull white??
>
> No, but some models phased out in April 2003 may still remain in sales
> somewhere. You will find all the info you need here:
>
> http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/05/27/
>
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