I had Debian running on an old clamshell iBook for a bit; the main things I remember were that it was kind of neat, and that it took less cpu to play music from my server via mpd and pulseaudio-over-network than it did to play the files directly on the iBook.

This was pre-Mac OS X. The thing had a terrible 800x600px screen but still it was my gateway to decades of Macs.

The switch to Unix in MacOS X cemented their place in my life.

I will totally deny that the Macs in Independence Day and Mission Impossible were major influences on my juvenile mind to switch to the Mac.

That looks right to you as you open the laptop, but wrong to everyone else. Now when you’re in a coffee shop, all the little metal promotional billboards are correct.

1499 usd for the cheapest clamshell!

https://www.ibook-clamshell.com/index.php/en/model-overview

I'm sad everything's serifless these days...

I always enjoyed the concept of the iBook, but never found it something that I wanted, personally.

I used to refer to it as "the MacBook Toilet Seat."