Indigo and Key Lime are the hot new colors this year. And while the Graphite isnt technically a new color for the iBook, note the new snow accents on all of the new models. Except this snow is polished smooth and glossy  almost like its dripping wet. A minor detail? Perhaps. But its part of the sensory experience of using an iBook.



The iBook has been improved in other ways. Fact is, the new iBook has a lot more space on the inside. Hard disk capacity has grown 60% to a whopping 10GB  more than enough space, for example, to store the text contained in 10,000 books the size of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.



At a 100,000-word volume a day, that would be over 27 years worth of reading material. Thats great if you love reading, of course, but youll probably find yourself using that hard disk capacity for something thats all the rage with iMac users: making Desktop Movies with iMovie.



The new iBook Special Edition has a built-in feature designed to help make it the life of the party, and thats DVD. So you and your friends can slip the latest DVD title into the DVD-ROM drive and watch it on a brilliant 12.1-inch display  or on your TV.





Looking for Pentium-crushing speed? Youve found it: you can get an iBook with a 366MHz PowerPC G3 processor in Indigo or Key Lime, or an even faster 466MHz iBook in Key Lime or the iBook Special Edition in Graphite. In performance tests running processor-intensive applications like Macromedia Director and Adobe Photoshop, the new iBook soundly whipped the competition. (We know: these heavy-duty applications are not necessarily what youll use on your iBook. But professional graphics programs do give microprocessors a pretty good workout, and can indicate how well a notebook computer performs under extreme conditions.)



The build-to-order iBook

Incidentally, you can also custom-configure your iBook through the Apple Store. The build-to-order iBook is available in the groovy new color, Key Lime, and you can get yours with either a 366MHz or 466MHz PowerPC G3 processor, a 10GB or 20GB hard disk drive, and a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.



Of course, this custom configuration comes fully loaded with standard iBook features like 64MB of SDRAM, 8MB of video memory, 10/100BASE-T Ethernet, a 56K V.90 modem and a brilliant 12.1 inch SVGA TFT color display, plus USB and FireWire ports for added expandability.



