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  Apples first battery powered computer is costed $6,500
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  costed one third of the price of macintosh portable. and was as fast as it too.
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  The duo line was launched as smaller and more port0able of the main powerbook.
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  It was the first in the industry to feature stereo speakers in the upper screen corners.
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  the first laptops to use PowerPC G3 chips
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  More affordable and was very unique when they made multiple differnt colors
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  had an attractive titanium case. but switched to aluminum in 2003
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  the white iBook G3 is the first in the lineof cheaper and better designed laptops that would eventually be made into a MacBook Range
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  saw the end of the PowerPC G3 chips a disk tray way added
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  it was the first to use the Magsafe power charger.
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  The Macbook name also replaced the iBook as the low-end laptop. Plastic bodied at first, then later unibody aluminium as the Pro version was. It was eventually dropped from the product line, although the MacBook Pro lives on.
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  originally launched as an ultra-portable it was the best selling laptop in 2008