Reporting live from this year's MACWORLD in New York city, we took a quick look at Apple's new notebook- the iBook. You can have your own translucent candy colored laptop for only $1599! For an Apple PowerBook, that's actually darn cheap. The iBook should sell like water in the desert.

• 300-MHz PowerPC G3 processor (Plenty fast. Think 350 MHz Pentium II)
  
• 512K backside level 2 cache on processor module
  
• 66-MHz system bus; 66-MHz memory bus
  
• Integrated floating-point unit and 64K on-chip level 1 cache (32K data and 32K instruction)
  
• 32MB of SDRAM (supports up to 160MB of RAM)
  
• 3.2GB IDE hard disk drive
  
• Built-in 24x-speed (maximum) CD-ROM drive
  
• One USB port
  
• Built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet
  
• Built-in 56K KFlex/V.90 modem
  
• Optional 11-MBS Air Port wireless networking card (IEE 802.11 DSSS compliant)
  
• (This, in concert with an Air Port Hardware Access Point, allows you to keep your iBook on your network from as far as 150 feet away.)
  
• Single built-in mono speaker
  
• 16-bit stereo sound output mini-jack (To cut costs, and because few use it, there is no sound input.)
  
• ATI RAGE Mobility graphics controller with 2X AGP and 4MB of SDRAM (With this slow and steady graphics chip, iBook owners will be playing Quake II in software mode.)
  
• 12.1-inch (diagonal) 800x600 TFT SVGA active-matrix display
  
• Lithium-ion battery; 45-watt-hour. Up to 6 hours of battery life.
  
• Width: 13.5 inches (34.4 cm)
  
• Height: 11.6 inches (29.4 cm)
  
• Average depth: 1.8 inches (4.6 cm); depth ranges from 1.24 inches (3.15 cm) at the thinnest point to 2.06 inches (5.2 cm) at the thickest point
  
• Weight: 6.7 pounds (3.0 kg)