They're still there, here's a link:

http://www.apple.com/powerbook/

"Apple unveils faster iBooks with built-in networking"

Welcome to the 90s.

well, they mean wireless networking, but since this is the 21st century, that goes without saying...;)

nice update, as long as you have a networked box for storage somewhere too, these things are awesome as digital hubs.

Well, the downside is that I don't get the iBook tomorrow. Looks like I won't be able to play with it until Friday.

Oh well, something to look forward to on the weekend. =D

Man, I just bought a refurbed 1ghz 12" last month. Wonder if I can get a price adjustment.

Extract from Apple site:

To maximize its speed, Apple engineers pair the G4 processor with a fast 133MHz system bus and 256MB of onboard memory to accelerate calculations and make your applications scream.

How exactly is 133Mhz FAST???? My 2 year old Tibook has a 133Mhz bus.

Can it drive a second monitor?

all white iBooks can mirror the display to a monitor (or beamer etc.) but you cannot expand your screen with a second monitor. The graphics chip is capable of this, but Apple purposelly disables this functionality. It is deemed a pro-feature and thus only available on the powerbook line of Apple portables.

all white iBooks can mirror the display to a monitor (or beamer etc.) but you cannot expand your screen with a second monitor. The graphics chip is capable of this, but Apple purposelly disables this functionality. It is deemed a pro-feature and thus only available on the powerbook line of Apple portables.

Supposedly (and this is a supposedly), you can flash the firmware of the video card or the computer to get two-monitor support. You can do it with the new iMacs, and the previous iBooks (I think, its so hard to remember what works and doesn't work).

The market for these puppies is schools. They don't need to expand to a second monitor, or play fast video games, or run Final Cut Pro. They need to wireless browse, run basic Office apps well, handle iMovie, survive kid use and be cheap. The price point on these is why Apple can lease tens of thousands of them to a school distric or state for an annual cost in the $250 per device range, including support and training. It's their most successful enterprise-sized effort, and this bump is just right to keep them doing well in this area.

With the current G4's iBooks you can patch the PRAM to allow video spanning.

Normally you can mirror the external display, but with the patch you can drive both displays separately.

Powerpoint takes advantage of this in a neat way. Your presentation is on an external display, and your iBook shows the slide with notes and previews of the next few slides.

There's a script (promts are in German) called "iBook Screen Enhancer" that will do the patch for you.

Beware because if you do this to a machine that does not support this, you're dead.

The market for these puppies is schools. They don't need to expand to a second monitor, or play fast video games, or run Final Cut Pro.

Would you care to explain this marketing effort on the Apple Store web site?

"Blistering 3D effects
To power iBook’s brilliant display, we’ve included an ATI Radeon 9200 graphics processor with 32MB of dedicated Double Data Rate (DDR) video memory. The Radeon processor offers dazzling 2D, 3D and video performance, a feature you’ll really appreciate when editing footage in iMovie or while playing Unreal Tournament 2004."

The motherboard of my 800 MHz iBook just failed for the fourth time, last night, so it looks as though I have to go in today for another replacement. This is really getting frustrating. I'm hoping that they'll just give me a new iBook as was happening for the most boisterous complainants of this recurring problem last year or earlier this year. It cost something like $2,800 CAD to replace the motherboard last time, so obviously it would be cheaper for Apple to just send a new iBook that is not prone to this recurring problem. As a typically passive Canadian, I don't know how to be as boisterous as some Americans are naturally able to be to ensure the results I want (complaining loud enough about an apparently endless series of motherboard replacements to the extent that they'd just give me a new iBook). Any ideas on how and what I should do?!