1 post tagged “dotcom nostalgia”
While cleaning out stuff from the basement here at 123 I found my two dotcom laptops, and decided to see if they still worked at all. Amazingly enough, both do. As you can see from this picture. You can see that on my Powerbook G3 I'm playing Civ II. I set them up side by side with my current Powerbook to show that, over time, Apple did manage to make their laptops a more reasonable shape and size.
Not pictured, unfortunately, is my dual-USB iBook, which I gave to my cousin. He still uses it, though he says it's quite unreliable.
The Powerbook G3 (the one on the left) was an amazing piece of engineering. I always thought of it as the Cadillac of laptops. I think it's keyboard is the best I've used-much nicer than the one on my current Powerbook. Big screen, nice comfortable hand-rests. Modularly extensible (I have the CD, floppy disk and zip modules.) Of course, it weighed a back-breaking seven pounds, which I don't miss. I lugged that thing back and forth to OffRoad every day for two years.
