Apple iBook Is Now Shipping Says Jobs.
In his keynote at Apple Expo The Apple Expo is a European annual sales conference and technology exposition held by Apple. The conference features over 250 exhibitors annually, with Apple being its main exhibitor. Europe in Paris, France, perpetual
interim CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Steve Jobs Steve Jobs - Stephen Jobs says Apple has already started shipping its iBook
consumer notebook. "We announced that we would ship the iBook in
mid-September, and guess what - that's today," said Jobs. He
described the iBook as the industry's second-fastest laptop, second
only to Apple's own PowerBook. That said, CompUSA still lists the
notebook as on back-order. Not to worry. The iBook seems certain to be
another strong seller for the Lazarus from Cupertino. Apple says it has
taken 160,000 pre-orders at around $1700 a pop for the translucent
clamshells - and that doesn't include Japan, where the machine was
the darling of the World PC Expo A trade show for resellers, corporate managers and technical professionals from CMP Media LLC, a subsidiary of United Business Media. First held in New York in 1983 with 120 exhibitors and 9,600 attendees, the show grew from the personal computer's early years to 550 vendors and more than in Tokyo.
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