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Apple's charming little iBook with the 12.1in screen now has a higher-end iBook sibling with a 14.1in screen,"giving small-business users a nice midrange choice among Mac portables.
The new Apple iBook is as easy to use as any Mac and comes with plenty of documentation.
The iBook G4 is a rugged notebook, well suited for students and home users who want a small, affordable Mac notebook.
The original iBook wasn't everybody's cup of tea: veteran columnist John Dvorak described it as "girly". But this year's model sports a more conservative industrial design.
Apple Computer pulled back the curtain on a new generation of its iBook portable today. Apple CEO, Steve Jobs told media and industry analysts that the new machine "takes design cues" from the Titanium PowerBook G4 during a presentation at the Apple campus in California two days ago. Acknowledgng Apples renewed focus on the education market, he went on to tout the new system as a boon to schools.
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