MacBook Pro - History of Apple Portable Macs

mbohn · mbohn #1 (**permalink**)

09-23-2009, 07:47 AM

Thought you might be interested in this:

From Mac Portable to MacBook Pro: 20 years of Apple laptops - Ars Technica

Zigdog · Zigdog #2 (**permalink**)

09-23-2009, 07:58 AM

Thanks dude...
thts really interesting!

Alexander1234 · Alexander1234 #3 (**permalink**)

09-23-2009, 10:02 AM

Amazing find, but i cant imagine having to carry 16 pound laptop. But then again that was back in the day i suppose the Wallstreet macbook must have made it big!

darrylyoung · darrylyoung #4 (**permalink**)

09-23-2009, 11:57 AM

Awesome find!

leopard-user1 · leopard-user1 #5 (**permalink**)

09-23-2009, 03:48 PM

nice find

DarkestRitual · DarkestRitual #6 (**permalink**)

09-23-2009, 03:53 PM

16MHz... lightning fast.

dmccloud · dmccloud #7 (**permalink**)

09-24-2009, 12:30 AM

As someone who owned a PowerBook 145B with it's 2-bit LCD "glory", I can appreciate the article - and just how far we've come from the days of that PowerBook to my MacBook Pro.

dtravis7 · dtravis7 #8 (**permalink**)

09-24-2009, 01:30 AM

As I have said here before, I still have my Powerbook 170 and it still works as new. Just the battery is LONG gone!

It's a good article but they went a bit overboard on the iBook. Like some of the comments after the article, only some iBook's motherboards had issues. Also the later G4 iBooks were pretty reliable. Mine is over 4 years old now and still going strong, but mine is the last iBook G4 12" 1.33 Ghz with BT and WiFi.

I still have my Blackbird 540c and I agree with their comments. Very nice notebook for it's time. It still amazes me at times for how old it is. Mine has a 117 Mhz Power PC board. Quite zippy with OS 8.1.

Zigdog #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 23, 2009 Posts: 169 Mac Specs: Macbook Pro, 4GB RAM, 250GB HD	09-23-2009, 07:58 AM Thanks dude... thts really interesting! ZIGDOG http://ziggytechblog.blogspot.com/ @ziggyknill
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leopard-user1 #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 27, 2009 Location: New York, NY Posts: 531 Mac Specs: 17" MacBook Pro, 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, not unibody	09-23-2009, 03:48 PM nice find (from scienceteecher.com) 17" MacBook Pro, OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
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dmccloud #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 30, 2009 Location: Anchorage, AK Posts: 143 Mac Specs: 15" MacBook Pro (Late-2011), 2.4 GHz Core i7, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD	09-24-2009, 12:30 AM As someone who owned a PowerBook 145B with it's 2-bit LCD "glory", I can appreciate the article - and just how far we've come from the days of that PowerBook to my MacBook Pro. ------------------------------------------------- 15" MacBook Pro (Late 2011) 2.4 GHz Core i7 \| 8GB DDR3-1333 RAM 750GB HDD \| OS X Lion 10.7.2
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dtravis7 #8 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 04, 2005 Location: Modesto, Ca. Posts: 25,807 Mac Specs: iMac C2D Late 2007 20" with 10.8.3, Macbook Santa Rosa 4GB Ram OSX 10.8.3	09-24-2009, 01:30 AM As I have said here before, I still have my Powerbook 170 and it still works as new. Just the battery is LONG gone! It's a good article but they went a bit overboard on the iBook. Like some of the comments after the article, only some iBook's motherboards had issues. Also the later G4 iBooks were pretty reliable. Mine is over 4 years old now and still going strong, but mine is the last iBook G4 12" 1.33 Ghz with BT and WiFi. I still have my Blackbird 540c and I agree with their comments. Very nice notebook for it's time. It still amazes me at times for how old it is. Mine has a 117 Mhz Power PC board. Quite zippy with OS 8.1. ...Dennis Mac-Forums Community Guidelines Last edited by dtravis7; 09-24-2009 at 01:47 AM.
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mbohn #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jul 09, 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 356	09-23-2009, 07:47 AM Thought you might be interested in this: From Mac Portable to MacBook Pro: 20 years of Apple laptops - Ars Technica
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darrylyoung #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 26, 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 213 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro \| iPhone 5 \| iPad 4	09-23-2009, 11:57 AM Awesome find!
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Member Since: Apr 09, 2009 Location: Ithaca NY Posts: 2,073 Mac Specs: 13 inch alMacBook 2GHz C2D 4G DDR3, 1.25GHz G4 eMac	09-23-2009, 03:53 PM 16MHz... lightning fast.
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