How the PowerBook was Born

Sabah Arif writes "Apple had no presence in the portables market prior to 1992. Its attempt at creating a laptop Macintosh, the Macintosh Portable, weighed almost 15 lbs and failed to sell. On the personal behest of John Sculley, Apple contracted with Sony to create Asahi, a smaller Portable. Apple developed two high end models in company. After 1992 and until the disastrous 5300, Apple was the leading notebook maker."

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The Story condensed

[Anonymous Coward]

PowerBook was born while on Safari. The child enjoyed sitting on Pa Apple's laptop, and had a run in with a Tiger at age X. Surviving a SCSI childhood in the mean streets of Motorola, PowerBook grew up to play with Firewire.

Re:thin thing

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets see, if its proper length is 1 cm then for it to be 25% thinner it must be 0.75 cm. This means that it needs to be moving 1.98 * 10^8 m/s (L=Lp*sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)) and orientated towards you in a way that its width is on the same axis as its 1.98 * 10^8 m/s velocity component. Now the question is how many frames per second you will get when playing Doom 3!

Re:thin thing

[Anonymous Coward]

if that is even possible.

Farnsworth: Oh my no. That would require extrememly tiny atoms. And have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money - leave me alone!

much more interesting...

[3-State Bit]

birth of the P-P-P-Powerbook

For the sake of the discussion...

[lpangelrob]

For the sake of the discussion and potential insightful commentary, what was the 5300 and why was it a "disaster"?

I was 14 when it was released. I didn't get my first real computer 'til 1995...

Thanks.

Re:what a wordsmith

[eMartin]

That's one way to interpret it.

I thought he was saying that Apple was the leading notebook maker for 3308 years.

And while I'm not one of those who expects Apple to go out of business anytime soon, I'm not so sure about them still being around in the disastrous year 5300.

Stonage?

[Compuser]

Is that a time period or a body condition?

Re:Stonage?

[game kid]

I get stonage when I sniff muh staaash, maaan. I inhale some vapor and I'm, like, *sniffs CPU* whooooa...*passes out in trailer and smashes LCD with forehead*

*game kid does not condone the use of processor steam as a recreational drug

Re:I think PowerBooks are pretty nice

[holy zarquon's singi]

I could even get used to the track pad, versus the pencil eraser thing I prefer now.

I think the pencil eraser thing you refer to should be referred to as a "clitoris".

Re:ah the original powerbook

[RollingThunder]

Sounds like the Kaypro that my father-in-law gave to me.

That thing is a farking boat anchor, but it's technically portable. By elephants.

Re:Oh really

[mlewan]

"I'm kinda looking forward to the Mac equivalents of MathCAD, Solidworks, Nastran and ADAMS.

Oh, you didn't mean real software you meant typewriting and pretty pictures. That's nice, dear."

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