Here’s a trip down memory lane for you nostalgic Mac users out there. Remember these models — the MacBook Pro, the PowerBook G4, the iBook, the PowerBook 520, and the PowerBook 100 — they were at the leading edge of portable computer technology in their respective times. Check this out:
Twenty years ago this week, Apple introduced its first laptop computer—the Macintosh Portable.At $6,500 (that’s $11,313 in 2009 dollars), 16 pounds, and the size of a briefcase, it failed to realize the dream of the perfect Mac laptop. But a lackluster reception didn’t hold Apple back for long. Over the years, many important Mac laptops have defined Apple’s course in the portable market.
Read the full article at Macworld.com.
It’s quite easy to forget that before Bill Gates and Windows, Mac was the first to adopt a graphical approach to the user interface — while all the neanderthal PC users were stuck with MS-DOS (the good old days). And so if you will notice from the article, the current standard of having a centrally-located touchpad in your portable started with Apple. They started with a trackball, which later evolved into our current trackpads and touchpads.
In this gadget geek’s hunch, one more will be added to this list pretty soon (hopefully, sooner than we’d all like) — the one that finally has the ‘bag of hurt’ on it — a Blu-Ray drive for Macs.
