Amaya Toman In the history of Apple, you would also find a rather diverse range of different laptops and notebooks, among other things. It's been several years since MacBooks successfully established themselves on the market, but at the turn of the millennium, Apple produced iBooks. They also enjoyed quite a lot of popularity. In today's article, we recall the time when the historically last iBook was launched on the market – the matte white iBook G4.
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It was the second half of July 2005, and Apple launched the white iBook G4. It was the last Apple laptop to bear this name, and at the same time the last Apple laptop to be equipped with a PowerPC chip. The iBook G4 was also equipped with a scrollable trackpad and a Bluetooth 2.0 interface. Compared to today's ultra-slim MacBook Pros or even the 2008 MacBook Air, the 2005 iBook looks quite hefty. To give you an idea - the 12" MacBook, which is no longer in use today, was thinner than the lid of the mentioned iBook G4 itself.
What it lacked in slimness, however, this durable laptop made up for with great performance under the hood. It boasted a faster processor, twice the RAM (2004MB vs. 512MB), 256GB of hard drive storage and, last but not least, better graphics compared to the late 10 model that was launched just a few months earlier. In addition to the mentioned scrolling trackpad, which allowed users to move with two fingers, the historically last model of the iBook also included the smart Apple Sudden Motion Sensor technology. It was designed to stop the hard drive heads from moving if the laptop detected that it had been dropped, protecting the computer from data loss.
The first iBook from Apple saw the light of day in 1999. This series of laptops marked an important milestone in the history of Apple. Laptops became almost a fad and almost everyone wanted to own an iBoo, whether it was the clamshell models with colored translucent plastic or the later matte versions. Laptops began to be perceived as a cool accessory, which also allowed their owners to take work and entertainment with them practically anywhere. Apple officially discontinued the sale of its iBook G4 in mid-May 2006. Another important milestone followed in the form of the switch to Intel processors and the launch of the first MacBook product line.
