Apple Ibook Notebook 12" M9426ll/A

Perfect for the activities you engage in each and every day ‿surfing the web, getting and sending email, chatting up a storm, doing your homework, playing games, listening to CDs, watching DVD movies, or creating your own musical compositions ‿iBook G4 fits snugly in your backpack and comfortably in your digital life.

Go Anywhere. Handle Anything.
iBook G4 offers an extra long battery life which features up to an incredible 6 hours of battery life. Many consumer notebooks offer you less than half that amount of battery life. Less than half. Not iBook G4. Thanks to the special energy-saving features built into the PowerPC G4 processor, the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics processor, and Mac OS X Panther itself, iBook G4 consumes energy highly efficiently. Result: you can work much longer untethered.

The lightest all-in-one consumer notebook on the market, the 12.1-inch iBook G4 weighs just 4.9 pounds. Many textbooks weigh more than either one. Lightweight, iBook G4 is also thin ‿a svelte 1.35 inches to be exact ‿making this impressive notebook small enough to fit in a backpack and light enough to carry around all day.

From the standpoint of a laptop, the inside of a backpack can be a rather jarring environment, one filled with bumps and even the occasional bounce. That鈥檚 why Apple designed the iBook G4 from inside out to stand up to the rigors of a fairly strenuous life on the go. After all, you shouldn鈥檛 have to walk softly just because you鈥檙e carrying the world鈥檚 most appealing notebook.

First off, Apple made the iBook鈥檚 sleek white case out of ultratough, impact-resistant polycarbonate plastic ‿the same high-grade material used in bulletproof glass. While that measure alone might have allowed iBook to comfortably survive everyday use and abuse, Apple took the idea of protecting your investment quite seriously. Inside, a sturdy magnesium frame provides superior strength, while reducing the weight of the iBook G4 to well below that of other full-featured PC notebooks. Apple even rubber-mounted the hard disk drive for added bump tolerance, so you can store all of your digital goodies on your iBook and still enjoy peace of mind. What鈥檚 more, the iBook has no I/O doors, protruding elements ‿and no tray, either ‿to break or snap off when tucked into a backpack or briefcase.

Power adapter When you鈥檙e ready to take your iBook G4 out of your backpack and plug it in, you鈥檒l find a well-designed, square-shaped power adapter that will serve all your needs. The adapter, which fits easily in your hand, has retractable hooks that let you wrap the DC cord for neater storage. While you can use the included AC plug to connect the adapter directly into a nearby wall outlet, your iBook also includes a separate AC Cord that lets you plug into an outlet up to 12 feet away. Colored LED lights show charging status. An amber ring indicates that your battery is recharging, while a green ring tells you that you have a full charge.

Need performance?
The iBook features a 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor with Velocity Engine and 512K Level 2 Cache. Can you say 鈥渟peedy.‿To maximize its speed, Apple pairs the G4 processor with a fast 133MHz system bus and 256MB of onboard memory to accelerate calculations and make your applications scream. And you鈥檒l also be glad to hear that you can boost memory capacity to a remarkable 1.25GB of memory. How many applications would you like to run at the same time?

The iBook features a roomy 30 GB hard drive. With iBook鈥檚 slot-loading Combo Drives you can watch DVDs, play music CDs, and burn your own data CDs and music CDs.

An impressive display
Both iBook models offer brilliant 1024-by-768-pixel resolution ‿ideal for doing everything from working on spreadsheets to displaying your movies and digital pictures in millions of colors. What鈥檚 more, the iBook display scales down beautifully, again with millions of colors, for special games and applications optimized for 800-by-600 or 640-by-480 pixel resolutions. And both come powered by an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics processor with 32MB of dedicated video memory and AGP 4x support for dazzling 3D graphics that bring games to life.

Mac OS X Panther The iBook comes with Mac OS X version 10.3 鈥淧anther,‿Apple鈥檚 easy-to-use, next-generation operating system. Mac OS X Panther gives you over 150 new features, including Expos茅 (for making the most of the real estate on your screen), Fast User Switching (perfect for families who share one computer system), and FileVault (ironclad security for all the files on your hard disk). Naturally, you also get the Internet to go, with automatic networking to make connecting a snap: Mac OS X senses whether you鈥檙e connecting from home, school or the office ‿and configures your system automatically. And with Mac OS X鈥檚 Instant On feature, your iBook wakes from sleep instantly when you open it.

A new point of view

Mac OS X has evolved. The fourth major release in just three years, Panther offers breakthroughs in innovation, ease of use and reliability that won鈥檛 be seen in other operating systems for years, if ever. If you鈥檙e one of the millions of Mac owners, you鈥檒l love the powerful refinements to your system. Or as a user of a Windows- or UNIX-based system, you鈥檒l find mouth-watering incentives to switch to a Mac as your main computer.