modmyi.com - 9/20/2009
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The first portable Mac is now entering its third decade.
The "luggable," is it was called way back when, was released on September 20, 1989 and weighed in at a hefty 16 pounds, due to its sealed lead-acid batteries (think golf cart) and early active-matrix LCD ...
PowerBook takes a “Major League” hit
macenstein.com 8/20/2009 — I’m the furthest thing you’ll find from a baseball fan, so the idea of being a photographer sent to cover all the “action” of a Pittsburgh Pirates game is scary enough, but check out the carnage that befalls this poor ...
External Link: Happy Birthday, App Store!
ax.itunes.apple.com 7/8/2009 — It's been just one year since Apple launched the phenomenally successful iTunes App Store, and the company is celebrating. Within the iTunes Store, Apple has created a page highlighting some of the company's favorite apps, choosing from the over-50,000 apps currently available. (Link opens in ...
From Mac Portable to MacBook Pro: 20 years of Apple laptops
arstechnica.com 9/22/2009 —
Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the first portable Macintosh computer, the aptly-named Macintosh Portable. While it was indeed portable, it was anything but svelte. Apple's first non-desktop Mac weighed in at nearly ...
How I Got a Vintage Mac
cultofmac.com 2/6/2009 —
Independent Mac repair shops all over the world are rejoicing this week, after Apple’s announcment the company will phase out repair support for certain G4 machines, xserve products and other “vintage” and ...
Prototype Mac Pro and Intel PowerBook Spotted
macrumors.com 9/17/2009 — Prototype Apple products have been known to appear on eBay. Late last year, a prototype MacBook Air was found by a member of our forum and in March a prototype iPhone was spotted.
Now, it seems a prototype Mac Pro has been put up for...
Remember This? Looking Back at the First PowerBook [Retromodo]
gizmodo.com 10/13/2008 — With new Macbooks seemingly imminent , I thought it'd be a good time to look back in time to the first Apple laptop that changed portable computing forever: the original PowerBook. Back in 1991, Apple wasn't the company it was today. There was no ...
Apple sued over defective PowerBook memory slots
appleinsider.com 11/3/2008 — Apple is facing a new class-action lawsuit that charges the company with failing to fully recognize the scope of a memory slot defect in its PowerBook G4 notebooks, which has left thousands of customers with no choice but to foot hefty repair costs on ...
Happy 25th birthday to Macintosh
blogs.computerworld.com 1/24/2009 — Well, today is the day. Twenty-five years ago on this day, a much-younger Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh to 3000 attendees at the Flint Center at De Anza College in Cupertino. As you can see below, Jobs didn't just catch his showmanship stride ...
MacRumors.com: PowerBook News and Rumors
powerbook.macrumors.com 8/24/2008 — PowerBook Rumors Archive powerbook This page archives PowerBook related news and rumors published on MacRumors.com. It only contains articles relating specifically to the PowerBook product and is only a small minority of articles displayed on ...
Class action suit filed over PowerBook G4 memory slots
arstechnica.com 11/3/2008 — A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Apple in a California District Court, alleging that the company hasn't done enough to correct a memory slot defect common to PowerBook G4 notebooks. Ahh, a blast from the past. Read More...