Charles Moore looks back at the clamshell iBooks and shares how he almost bought one, but decided instead to get the bigger, more costly PowerBook G3. Share your clamshell iBook stories.

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I bought a Key Lime trade-in almost seven years ago. It hasn't missed a beat since then and has been a great little road warrior. Two Thumbs Up!

(And why, in Vishnu's name, did Apple drop the built-in handle? That was an absolutely brilliant design touch...)

A clamshell iBook 366 was my first Mac purchased new. It was great for it's time, never had a hardware failure and was quite feature-packed. In retrospect, however, I would prefer the slender MacBooks of today to the nearly 2" of bulletproof iBooks of yesteryear, handle or not. I never actually used the handle on my iBook, preferring to carry it around in a traditional case.

I bought an iBook from eBay for only $169.00. It has a 20G HD and 256MB of RAM. It works great though(thanks pacific macs!) now I wish I had the money to buy a macbook. I have now become obsested with getting a mac, one with higher specs, probley of eBay, heck I'll get another iBook if I have to, just as long as its' a Mac!

Be sure to find an Intel Mac to fully enjoy it for years.