Article: Apple's iBook: A Mac to Go: Steve Jobs opens the next chapter in the revitalization of the company that pioneered the PC: a laptop that thinks - and looks - different.(COMPUTERS)(Science and Technology)

Pick it up!" says Steve Jobs. "Let's go for a walk!" It's a few days before Apple's charismatic interim CEO will introduce his new object of desire, the iBook, to the world, and he's thrilled to air out the distinctive, clam-shaped consumer laptop. Grabbing one of two units on a long table (the one with the blueberry-colored rubber on its shell), he motions his NEWSWEEK visitor to take the one with the tangerine-orange trimmings. The 44-year-old Apple cofounder, decked out in cargo shorts, sandals and the beginnings of a full beard, has set up the machines to run movie trailers piped in from the Internet--a James Bond for him, an Austin Powers for his visitor. With ...

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