Those prices are wild. I forgot how much laptops cost at the time. On the other hand, I was just a kid, so maybe I was just never really that aware of it.

Price USD Price DM Euro

$ 1,599 DM 3749 EUR 1917

$ 1,799 DM 4249 EUR 2172

$ 1,499 DM 3999 EUR 2045

$ 1,799 DM 4699 EUR 2403

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

Yeah, that first ibook base model would have been around $3100 today ($1599 then): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook#iBook_G3_(%22Clamshell%2...

Laptops used to be a premium product, even on the lower-ish end. I don't think that properly changed in the mass-market until the eee pc, but I might be misremembering.