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Making final college plans for your first (or third) semester away
from home? Then you’ll want to find a place in your backpack for
iBook.
Like other Macintosh computers, iBook just works. It’s ready to go
right out of the box, and even if you’ve never used a computer
before, you’ll feel like a pro in no time.
It comes with practically everything you need.
AppleWorks—just one of the software applications that come with iBook—provides
word processing, drawing, spreadsheet, database, outlining,
presentation, spell checking, and painting—all in one easy-to-use
package.
And iBook comes with both Internet Explorer and Outlook
Express for web surfing and email.
Need more?
Thousands of other applications are readily available for
just about any conceivable purpose. And if you need to exchange
documents with Windows users on campus—or even run Windows
applications (using readily available programs like Connectix
Virtual PC or FWB Software’s SoftWindows 98)—iBook can do that,
too.
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With its built-in modem and Ethernet, iBook offers an easy on-ramp
to the Internet. And if your school has AirPort Base Stations
deployed around campus, you can even work wirelessly by installing
an optional AirPort Card.
When all the desktops at all the labs are booked solid until 3 am,
you can just smile and work wherever you’d like. Out on the quad.
Down in the stacks. In your dorm. Or at a table at the local
Starbucks.
Its portability makes iBook an invaluable study aid. iBook and
Sherlock make it a breeze to do research on the Internet. And when
you need to take notes—during lecture classes or while perusing
books and periodicals that don’t circulate—iBook lets you go where
the information is. Don’t worry about working unconnected either:
iBook offers up to 6 hours of battery life.
One other important feature to note: iBook has a built-in handle. So
not only is iBook easy to take with you where you go, but a simple
and inexpensive security cable looped through that convenient handle
means that iBook won’t go anywhere without you.
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