The Clamshell certainly had a fanbase around it, and still does to this day. Apple sold 700,000 of them in the 19 months they were on the market, according to a comment from Jobs as he replaced the ...

Back then, the company had hulking devices (including that $6,500 'portable' Apple ... clamshell-inspired iBook had a 12.1-inch active-matrix LCD display, an internal 56K modem, a 300MHz G3 ...