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How Apple INVENTED the laptop
How Apple INVENTED the laptop
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“Luke Miani”
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The Macintosh Portable has long been regarded a failure of the between Steve Jobs era at Apple- when the product line didn’t make sense and they…
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Luke, did the battery on that one just….work? Or did you have to rebuild/replace it? I have my uncle’s old Mac Portable now, which I can still remember him using in the early 90s, but the lead acid battery has long since died. A few years ago I started looking into what it would take to rebuild/replace the battery but gave up. If anyone on here has had success with either rebuilding one or one bought off eBay, let me know.
Didn’t the original Macintosh have a handle and a special bag to allow for portability? I guess the two main differences between the computers was having a battery and a complete all in one design (attached keyboard and trackball).
You have to look at this computer for not for what it is but for what it was. It was built at a time where the only real portable competition was Compaq and that only ran DOS. The only buyers at the time were business users as the price tag was very high and no home users needed t carry a computer around with them. Fast forward 40 years and now desktops are becoming obsolete and laptops keep getting better and better.
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Pretty cool! Love the innovation of the day!
the thing that surprised me is the realization of why modern MacBooks have a 16:10 aspect ratio screens…
Cool video.
Make the video on the powerbook 100
@lukemiani I was wondering if you know why my 2021 14" m1 pro mac isn't turning on it was working fine last week but it won't turn on or make the charge sound when I plug it in
Nice piece of history
Let’s see that PowerBook video!
Do you happen to know what kind of switches your portable’s keyboard has? They sound like some sort of Alps?
Actually, I’d like to see a power book 100 video, I used to own one back in the day. It was my third computer, my first one being an NEC equivalent to the TRS 80 which was made by RadioShack and then my second computer was a Macintosh SE/30 and my third computer was a power book 100. Those were the good old days!
There is a subliminal single frame of you at @1:49 – you going all Fight Club on us now Luke? 🙂
I think the reason why this failed as a product was because people excepted it to be a laptop, they treated it like a laptop and got dissapointed! This is not supposed to be a laptop, The thing is called Macintosh Portable, it's a Macintosh that you can carry around, not a Macintosh laptop!
i would argue that the Tandy 200 and PC convertible are the first laptops. as for the pointing devices, these were not commonplace until the late 386 era of laptops, with a similar story for hard disks.
imagine going back in time and showing this generation your Macbook Air lmao
Yes, I'd love to see a video on the PowerBook 100. I had one over a decade ago, gifted to me, but it didn't work, even after recapping. Sold it as is on eBay.
Correction for the video: Portable had a 16 MHz 68HC000 processor, similar to an SE, but faster. SE/30 had a 68030, which was notably faster and supported things like virtual memory.
Omg the start of the video had me chuckling.
The first isn't always successful.
My dad had one of those suitcase portables. IBM compatible where the keyboard came off the end and there was a monitor and two vertical floppy disk drives. My first programming was done on it with LOGO.
Fun video!
This machine is so beautiful. Awesome video, Luke!
All I want is to find the image on the display at 10:09
wonder if anyone did a backlight mod for this
imagine dropping that thing… it would leave an hole in the floor
It was a desktop you can take with you, so any kind of portability was a bonus at the time 😛
BANGER INTRO 👀
I remember the PowerBook 100 fondly. Pushing the keyboard towards the hinge was a master stroke in terms of balancing the laptop on your lap. I also remember the Macintosh Portable, with the trackball switchable to the left, but mostly how heavy and expensive it was.
The Macintosh Portable was, in essence, a base Macintosh SE, using ACTUAL Mac SE components (Logic Board and HDD) crammed and redistributed in a portable case design. Yes, a desktop Mac for the go. That's why it was so heavy and bulky, but came with industry first tech features and innovations.
P.S. a backlight capable revision of the Macintosh Portable was introduced months later before it was replaced by the PB100 in 1991 which in contrast uses true laptop components designed from scratch.
I owned a Grid Compass, an ATR1000, and a TRS model 100. My first “portable” Macintosh was an SE/30 with a canvas shoulder bag. It was bulky, but it was the full Macintosh experience. Later I got the PowerBook Duo with the home docking station. Finally I could take it every time I travelled. I had a mouse sized 9600 baud faxmodem for connectivity. Much better than the optional 14.4K Apple modem. My next PowerBook was the titanium, a giant leap forward.
I just want to know why Luke forgot to run any benchmarks in this video.
Surprised you didn’t demo the built in carry handle. Also, nice to see one that hasn’t yellowed over time.
Hella props for not ignoring the MCM70! APL for the win!