Apple iSight — Factory Sealed (Unopened) M8817CN - Computer - In original box

Add a touch of Apple nostalgia to your holiday collection!

Up for auction is a "factory-sealed", unopened Apple iSight M8817CN — a rare find for collectors and vintage Apple enthusiasts. This unit remains completely UNOPENED*, preserving its pristine original condition, making it a perfect gift, display piece, or collector’s treasure for the holidays.

>> Important Note About Opening*
Once the box is opened, the item is considered used, and returns or refunds will no longer be accepted.

// Additional Photos Included
To give buyers a clear idea of what is inside, I am also including photos of a previously opened iSight.
These images are for reference only — the actual item you will receive is "factory sealed / unopened".

Whether you plan to keep it sealed as part of your collection or open it to use this classic Apple webcam, this is a unique opportunity to own a pristine piece of Apple history.

// What its iSight?
These days we think nothing of holding up an iPhone and starting a FaceTime call, or launching Skype on a Mac and getting connected in seconds with full-screen, relatively smooth video.

Of course, this was not always the case. For most of the computer-history, if you wanted a webcam, you bought one afterwards and plugged it in. These things were usually pretty crappy, in part because the sensors were just a bit rubbish but also because they were often preposterously ugly things.

That last part, at least, changed on June 23, 2003, at WWDC, when Apple introduced the iSight.

Echoing the design language of the "Power Mac G5" which also made its debut that month, this thing was gorgeous. Hell, this thing is still gorgeous. It’s emblematic of a certain kind of product we occasionally get from Apple, something that has had entirely disproportionate amounts of love lavished on it, producing something that is not only beautiful but which feels, however wrong this may actually be, like it’s unnecessarily good.

Like, while most webcams had a fixed focus or at best manually focusable lens, the iSight’s three-element lens autofocuses from 50mm to infinity. While most webcams were jittery, low-framerate messes that connected over USB, the iSight was full 30fps, and connected over FireWire. And while those few webcams that had a manual shutter for privacy featured a simple, clumsy cover, you twisted the ring at the front of the iSight to iris-in a three-part shutter behind the glass.

The microphone was noise cancelling, it came with a little plastic pot for protecting it as you carried it in a bag, and you adjusted the direction it pointed using a ball and socket joint on the bottom, which also doubled as the point where you connected the camera using FireWire.

And the stands! Oh, the stands. Again, painfully over-engineered, but all the more wonderful for that – designed to be stuck, once you’d removed the white backing paper, to the top of a CRT such as an eMac, you also got one with a little tightening thumbscrew that you hooked to a laptop screen, and one stubby little white one that attached magnetically to an iMac G5 or display.

It was a fiddly process: picking the mount, adding the little cable adapter, threading everything together before ultimately, inevitably realizing you’d got something the wrong way round. But it looked so neat and lovely once you’d done it.

And although one don’t really use it anymore today, the FaceTime HD camera is something obstinately hardcore, something that says “I am important and I need to participate in important video conferences with Beijing and Munich.” It’s nonsense, of course, but harmless enough.

// PACKAGING & SHIPPING
The keyboard bundle is packaged securely and carefully for safe shipment.
Moreover, this bundle is shipped INSURED because of its precious value. Because of the precious content extra attention is paid to the CUSTOM packaging. This extra cost is included in the shipping price.

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– Steve Jobs quote

Don't miss this unique opportunity.
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Let the bidding begin … for this legendary "factory-sealed", unopened Apple iSight M8817CN.
A rare holiday gem for collectors and Apple fans alike!

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