> OK, we can all have a giggle at 'portable' computers from the early days of computing but at nearly 16 pounds the Mac Portable really was taking the piss.
My first computer-of-my-very-own was my beloved Compaq Deskpro Portable (autoexec.bat ftw). It weighed in at just under 30 lbs.
Edit: I still have it some 25 years later, and it still works.
Is the Apple TV a particularly bad product? It seems to remain a profitable hobby, whereas most of these were lambasted from the start, and fairly short-lived.
OK, that is a pretty bad article, showing how little about Apple the writers know.
They only touched tangentially on the Performa line; what made the Performa so horrendous, was that certain models were actually slower than the models they replaced. For example, the Performa 5200 had a crippled IDE bus, and the motherboard was based on a Quadra 605 board, giving the 75Mhz PPC 603 chip less performance than a PPC601 running at 88Mhz. See http://lowendmac.com/ppc/performa-5200.html
Wow. This hadn't occurred to me before, but it also goes to show you how bad they were at naming. I mean, "Performa"? If that doesn't scream "budget line", I don't know what does.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 42.3 ms ] threadMy first computer-of-my-very-own was my beloved Compaq Deskpro Portable (autoexec.bat ftw). It weighed in at just under 30 lbs.
Edit: I still have it some 25 years later, and it still works.
It was great - when there wasn't a seat on the train or at the station I could sit on it.
They only touched tangentially on the Performa line; what made the Performa so horrendous, was that certain models were actually slower than the models they replaced. For example, the Performa 5200 had a crippled IDE bus, and the motherboard was based on a Quadra 605 board, giving the 75Mhz PPC 603 chip less performance than a PPC601 running at 88Mhz. See http://lowendmac.com/ppc/performa-5200.html
Another odd duck was the PoweCD. I owned one of these to go with my Duo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerCD
Did I say Duo? These dockable ultra-portables were fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo_2300c