Definitions

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  • proper noun laptops A line of lower-end laptop computers manufactured by Apple Computer.

Etymologies

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A trademark, apparently a blend of iMac and notebook computer

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Examples

  • Unanswered email in iBook inbox (which I only use on trips, so it's long overdue stuff): 29 + 20 = 49

    Happy New Year! kateelliott 2007

  • Remove my iBook from the backpack, and from its case; 5.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • I do think the iBook is sexier than the powerbook.

    A Pink Mac Anyone ? Ben Barren 2005

  • The reason I just purchased an iBook is because I owned a Compaq with Windows XP (kind of a joke after 2 mons. on OS X).

    iTunes. Whose Tunes? 2004

  • My iBook is the single biggest lemon I've ever owned.

    Boing Boing: January 19, 2003 - January 25, 2003 Archives 2003

  • The "Skeleton iBook" is an extreme iBook casemod where you make your own injection-molded trasnparent iBook chassis and move the guts to it.

    Boing Boing: January 26, 2003 - February 1, 2003 Archives 2003

  • The name iBook to this day holds some positive mindshare.

    Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com 2009

  • Of course, my poor iBook is currently god knows where, getting its logic board replaced, (turns out it was NOT the RAM on my machine that caused massive kernel panics), so I’d ask around before actually believing that.

    Waldo Jaquith - BlueRidgeMac. 2006

  • My iBook is easily the best computer I’ve ever had, and I’ve had IBMs, Dells, Sonys, etc. No comparison.

    Apple and its geniuses 2005

  • The model number of the iBook is A1061, with battery serial numbers including ZZ338 through ZZ427, 3K429 through 3K611, and 6C510 through 6C626.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006

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