With iMovie, iTunes and iTools, the new iBook is designed to work and play with your digital tools and toys. Fact is, the iBook adds fun-filled new dimensions to your MP3 player, music CD collection, digital camera, DV camcorder and personal digital assistant. Your iBook is right there at the center of it.

Enhanced performance
Turbocharged with a 500MHz or 600MHz PowerPC G3 processor and 256K on-chip cache running at full processor speed, the new iBook packs a tremendous punch. And it ships with the ATI Mobility Radeon graphics accelerator with 16MB of SDRAM and AGP 2X support for eye-popping 3D graphics.

You can choose an iBook with a CD-ROM drive, a DVD-ROM drive for watching DVD movies, a CD-RW drive to create your own music CDs or a Combo drive which combines the capabilities of CD-RW and DVD playback. The iBook with CD-ROM drive ships with 64MB of SDRAM, and the iBook with DVD-ROM, CD-RW and Combo drives ships with 128MB. All models are expandable, so you can add up to 512MB of RAM.

The iBook features a 10GB Ultra ATA hard disk drive, and you can upgrade to an optional 20-gigabyte hard drive (to make more space for your movies) through the online Apple Store. All models feature a 400Mbps FireWire port, two USB ports, a new VGA and composite video output port (for video mirroring on an external display) and an AV port that lets you show your movies and presentations to best effect on a big-screen TV (just add an optional Apple AV Cable).

The iBook sports a brilliant TFT XGA active-matrix display with razor-sharp 1024-by-768 pixel resolution, so you’ll see your movies and digital images in millions of colors. And for special games and applications that are optimized for 800-by-600 or 640-by-480 pixel resolutions, the iBook display scales down beautifully, again with millions of colors.

Movies, music & memories
The iBook lets you make your own movies — and show them anywhere. It lets you create your own music CDs and provides CD music conversion to MP3 files. It makes a dandy photo album, with space to spare for the thousands of images you’ve captured with your digital camera. And it gets you on the Internet in record time — wirelessly, if you prefer. What’s more, with up to five hours of play-time provided by its lithium-ion battery, chances are your iBook won’t need recharging before you do.

The new iBook comes with tons of cool software. For starters, there’s iTunes. This easy-to-use software lets you convert (or “rip”) the songs on your music CDs to MP3 format, compressing CD-quality audio files to about a tenth of their original size with very little loss in audible quality, simply by clicking a button. These significantly smaller file sizes enable you to store many songs on your MP3 player and your iBook hard disk drive.

With iTunes you can create custom playlists of songs sorted in the order you’d like to hear them, download songs to your MP3 player and — using an iBook with the CD-RW drive — burn your own music CDs.

Capture digital video footage on your DV camcorder and turn it into watchable little movies with the iMovie 2 software that comes pre-installed on your iBook. iMovie lets you transfer video clips from your digital camcorder to your hard disk, using the FireWire port on your iBook. You can edit and arrange your clips into stories, enhance them with transitions and animated onscreen titles and even add music and visual effects.

Use iMovie to snip out the boring parts and enhance the best parts with cool effects, transitions and titles. Then add a killer sound track and you’re done.

Watch your finished movies on your iBook or use the iMovie Export feature to select from a range of predefined QuickTime formats for creating and sharing movies. You can, for example, compress your movies so you can send them via email or post them on the Internet.