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In order to use wi-fi with an iBook Clamshell, you need an Air Port card. It needs to be the old type.
The manufacturer of the iBook G4 laptop is Apple. The G4 is referred to as Snow, whereas the G3 is referred to as Clamshell. They are available in 5 colors.
I believe you're referring to the "Clamshell" iBook G3's. There should be a number of them available on eBay.
An iBook G3 Clamshell needs to be running Mac OS X 10.3.4 (or later) for iLife '05 to operate. Depending on the particular version of Clamshell there may be problems with the amount of hard disc space available for the iLife applications.
The requirements for Leopard are any Intel, PowerPC G5 or G4 (867 MHz and faster). The clamshell iBooks, available between 1999 and 2001, have a G3 processor (300-466 MHz) which will not support Leopard.
Starting in September 1999 they shipped with OS 8.6. Some time in mid-2000 (maybe Augusta) that changed to OS 9.0.4. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2191?viewlocale=en_US
The difference is the keyboard, processor ( the fastest G3 is 900 MHz - G4 is 1.42 GHz) , memory (g3 can have up to 640mb - g4 1.5gb
Replacement power adapters for the iBook G3 ClamShell (M24353) are widely available. (See links below).
An iMac G3 would be an affordable platform to learn PowerPC-specific assembly programming. However, it is not a good choice for developing programs for Mac OS X programs.
The iMac g3 is best known for being the first model of the company Apple's iMac line of computers. This Apple computer model was first produced in 1998.
Apple iBook G3, 1999
The G3 (700MHz) iBook was introduced in mid 2002 and was discontinued at the end of 2003 to be replaced with the G4 iBooks.