iBook Clamshell Issues

[Brandon J. Brinkman]

I have an iBook Clamshell with a USB port, Ethernet, and Modem port. It
has a CD drive. I use a projector at my church and I have no idea if I
can hook up a projector to my laptop. It uses a monitor out port and my
iBook doesn't have that. I was wondering if there was a USB cable or
component I could buy for it.

Thanks,
Brandon J. Brinkman

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Are you sure you don't have a monitor port? Perhaps they have changed, but my
two-year old iBook has a monitor port. Since it is not a standard monitor
port that a normal cable plugs into, mine came with a converter. It's a short
cable that has one end that plugs into the monitor port on the iBook and one
end that plugs into a standard monitor cable.
--David

David Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

If you haven't already, I'd post this in Public.Mac.Office.PowerPoint
as well. This is the PC side of the fence. Some of us speak a
smattering of Mac, but with a funny accent.

FWIW, my iBook does have an external video port, but it's a
non-standard jack; needs a special adapter that came with the
computer to use it with projectors and such. The icon on the jack
looks like a tv screen with parentheses around it.

I also checked on the Apple Web site, and it appears that new iBooks
still have this port, right next to the USB port(s).

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

I wasn't familiar with the "clamshell" term. That turns out to be
key.

I fed Google "ibook clamshell video" and it coughed this:

http://www.2ndchancepc.co.uk/ibook-clamshell.html

"Announced in July 1999 at Macworld New York, the iBook was perhaps
the most anxiously awaited Apple computer ever. Aimed at the same
consumer market as it's big brother, the iMac, the iBook filled the
2x2 consumer/pro/desktop/portable matrix that Steve Jobs had first
detailed more than a year earlier. Its specs closely resembled that of
the iMac, with the same basic i/o options, and the same "closed
system" concept. In order to bring the price down as far as possible,
the design team removed the PC slots, IR, video-out and audio-in
ports. The iBook also lacked a high-speed data-port, such as SCSI or
firewire."

Video-out = nada.

Well, I guess that answers the question.

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Aha! I was thinking that this thing was newer than anything that I had.
It turns out to be older. This is from the Mac philosophy of cutting out
as much of the extra junk as possible. It turned out to be right (if not
a bit early) with floppy disks but wrong with video out.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/