Collect all five: Clamshell edition

[CooperBox]

“Citrus sells.” 🍋



Although I’m not in the EU, it can’t hurt to ask you nevertheless whether you have a bottom case for the key lime cladding and/or the centre clutch cover in the same. Those parts, offered as parts, have been nigh impossible for me to find for years. Cheers.

This one passed me by - apologies for very late reply. Unfortunately I have no spare parts for the key-lime model. Wish I did have!

 

[Austin_PPC]

That link is incredibly fascinating, thank you so much for finding it! I've read through it, and aside from a very detailed description of how a laptop works, there are some really intriguing quotes...

Spoiler

So basically, the rubber on the outward side of the iBook was meant to reduce vibration but in a stylish way, with "high aesthetic value". Heh, I'm not sure how well they could protect against shocks but the iBook does have small rubber feet. And it's very stylish.

On the topic of how to prevent damage to the laptop...

I would agree with this, if it wasn't for the fact that I own an early Panasonic Toughbook just for the looks . I'm fairly sure it weighs less and is smaller than the Clamshell, but then again, the clamshell was a few years behind. Interesting to see the evolution.


102=laptop top half, 104=laptop bottom half.
The specific plastic they used for the translucent shell plastic. The one that cracks.


116=top screen rubber, 112=top screen plastic.
Describing the rubber material.


128=port side rubber.
I wonder if they ever considered doing a completely clear version.


Looks like they considered adding some sort of colored plastic on the palm rest besides the trackpad and keyboard.

I also find it very interesting that they mention the five fruit colors, but also, "[...] or a combination of colors". I'm trying to imagine an iBook with multiple colors, or maybe even the dalmatian/flower pattern, but it's admittedly difficult.

Well, Ive, if you ever wished you could've seen a new fruity iBook, now you can:

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I can do a more detailed write-up later, but for now, this is how it is.

The rubber is very rough looking, because it swallowed almost all of my red tint, requiring me to put lots of layers, which made it difficult to sand it down. The CD bezel cover looks fairly smooth, though, but it could be thinner.

Speaking of, the buttons for the CD player doesn't really work because it flexes too much. Whoops.

Interestingly, the battery panel graphic art for the blueberry/tangerine are high quality printable versions of the OS9 wallpapers. It's a really stubborn ink printed on the backside that required me to sand it down for a long time. I scanned and re-designed the whole thing in InDesign and printed out my own version.

The trackpad button works wonderfully, though, as does the hinge. All these resin plastic has a slight rubberiness to them, say, when you press down the nail on them, compared to the original parts. It doesn't disturb me too much.

Overall, now that this is mostly done/usable, it feels strangely natural/believable for what it is. The red tint "feels" fruity, just like the tangerine and blueberry. It feels like Y2K apple. But anyways, the laptop works (with a broken xga display upgrade), but I haven't had time to take a better photoshoot. I'll take some more soon!

Hi, I know this post is very old, but are you ever going to sell these special colors?