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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Re:Asahi

[meringuoid]

Actually I think Sapporo and Kirin are much better Japanese beers. Asahi make some pretty pissy beers, especially their Red label (urrgrgrghhhh!) and the even worse Green label (bleuaghghhggh!)

I like the Asahi we get in .uk - silver label, but I don't know if it's the same branding they use elsewhere. I've been told before that Sapporo is better, but I've never seen it for sale here. Never heard of Kirin at all, except as a setting for appallingly formulaic Enid Blyton adventure stories...