2 posts tagged “laptops”

Today Apple finally (after several false starts) announced the new MacBook, their rebranded iBook. They look pretty sweet:

1.83 Ghz Core Duo White, $1,099
-Ships 1-5 Business Days
-60 GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
-Combo Drive

2.0 Ghz Core Duo White, $1,299
-Ships 1-5 Business Days
-60 GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
-SuperDrive

2.0 Ghz Core Duo Black, $1,499
-Ships 3-7 Business Days
-80 GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
-SuperDrive

You have to pay more for black ):. I'm sad to see the iBook nameplate retired, though-I have fond memories of all the iBooks I've owned, going back to my white and dark grey blue iBook DVD I bought in fall 2000.

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.