Apple iBook G4 SuperDrive - PPC G4 1.42 GHz - 14.1" TFT

For a laptop, the inside of a backpack presents a jarring environment filled with shifts, bounces and the occasional bump. That's why Apple engineers designed the iBook G4 from inside out to stand up to the rigors of a strenuous life on the go. After all, you shouldn't have to walk softly just because you're carrying the world's most appealing notebook. Made of ultra tough polycarbonate plastic - the same high-grade material used in bulletproof glass - the iBook's sleek white case resists impact. While that measure alone might have allowed iBook to comfortably survive everyday use and abuse, Apple engineers took the idea of protecting your investment quite seriously. Inside, a sturdy magnesium frame provides superior strength, while reducing the weight of the iBook G4 to well below that of other full-featured PC notebooks. Rubber mounted for added bump tolerance, the iBook's hard disk drive lets you store all of your digital goodies and still enjoy peace of mind. What's more, the iBook has no I/O doors or protruding elements - and no optical drive tray, either - to break or snap off when tucked into a backpack or briefcase. The optical drive in the top-of-the-line 14-inch iBook G4 is called a SuperDrive because it allows you to do so much. Quickly install applications from CD-ROM discs. Watch Hollywood's latest films on DVD and see how great the special effects look on iBook's brilliant display. Play music CDs. And import your favorite songs and albums into iTunes, where you can organize them into playlists to suit every mood and occasion. Every iBook comes with iDVD. One of the members of the stellar suite of iLife '05 applications, iDVD provides a simple interface for assembling a DVD that holds up to two hours of movies and thousands of digital images. You can create menus with up to six navigation buttons over full-motion backgrounds. iDVD comes with an array of professionally designed themes and also lets you create your own. The MPEG-2 encoder in iDVD and the Mac OS X architecture combine to provide fast encoding and accelerated DVD recording. And once you burn your projects to a DVD, you can pop them in the mail and send them to friends and family. That's because the DVDs the SuperDrive creates can be played on most consumer DVD players. The SuperDrive also writes to CD-RW media, discs that can be erased and then written to again. They offer the same capacity as CD-R discs, but because they can be written to multiple times, they're a great option for sharing large files or projects with others. Optical discs are ideal for backup because they offer huge capacity in a format that's both easy to store and lasts a long time. CDs can hold up to 650MB of data, more than 450 times as much as a floppy disk. DVDs can store a mind-boggling 4.7GB of data, the equivalent of about 18 Zip 250 disks or 3200 floppy disks. (In case you're interested, that's a stack of floppies over 40 feet high). With this kind of capacity, you can easily back up your entire digital photo collection, thousands of MP3 files or your iMovie HD projects - and store them safely for years.