Here we see Steve Jobs introducing the 17" & 12" PowerBooks. The 17" was the very first laptop ever with a 17" screen. Also shown is the first ever Airport Extreme router with 802.11g speeds, which was also an industry first.
Nobody is pointing out that this Airport announcement basically revolutionized office productivity. The ability for people to wirelessly print to a central hub was a complete game changer back then, something we take for granted now.
Actually they did everything right with this device, this is so an underrated product in apples history. If you look it up, it actualy works today as a pretty decent casual laptop.
I can agree with that statement. Had the 1.5GHz 12" model, with 1.25GB of RAM. With the combo drive. And a 60GB HDD. Loved that thing. But then the screen died and I didn't find it worth replacing cuz PPC support is awful. Now I've got a mid-2007 15" MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM, with a 128GB SSD. It's way better and can run up to OS X El Capitan. I love that thing, it's a screamer (both figuratively and literally - that fan though). It's nearly replaced my 5th gen Surface Pro as my daily driver.
@@onyxx300_Reapply thermal paste. Got a 17” PowerBook G4 here and it stays quiet all day. 20 year old thermal paste will accelerate the death of the machine
Hello from 2021. More time has now passed since you made this comment than when you commented and the keynote you were commenting on... your comment is now a trip to history! 😃
The 2nd rev. 12" PowerBook (1.33GHz) is one the best computers I've ever owned. Incredibly solid and super reliable. It's still in use as a netbook today (after several loyal years as a work machine)!
The PowerMac 12 is to this day still one of the greatest computers I've ever had the pleasure of owning. Seven years later, it's still rockin and rollin. My MBA 11 is even better.
There were 3 I believe. One on each side of the screen's hinge, the other was in the center exhaust grille. When the screen was opened, the sound reflected off the back of the screen.
Well it's been a month, how's it going for you :) I just replaced my non-unibody 17" MacBook Pro with a Unibody one, only thing that bothers me is the glossy screen but it's great.
Haha I guess I did. Time flies. I think I meant with regards to laptops when I typed that comment, but since the Retina MBP is out, I guess they are still innovating! However, I liked the older more friendly designs. I liked the older MBP where different pieces like plastic and metal fit nicely and the hinge disappears into the bezel of the laptop. I know a lot of tech goes into making unibodies, but the final result seems too easy and mass produced.
I had a 12" 1Ghz Powerbook G4, but the hard drive died, and sold it for a fraction of what I bought it for :( However, I have $60 i'm doing nothing with and there is a 12" Powerbook G4 that is a 1.5Ghz on eBay that is in good condition and it has Tiger (I will probably upgrade) and it is only $50 with free shipping should I buy it I dropped my MacBook and it got messed up and I think this would be good for school but what do you think I think it's a good deal
+Arlind86 Yeah that happened with a lot of em. I loved mine but one day I brought it to my friends house and I was watching videos on it and the screen went black and the keyboard light went on full blast. I started it back up again only to find a black screen and three beeps. Turns out the RAM slots went bad and there's no fix. However I have a 15 and 12 inch PowerBook and I love them.
adjusted for inflation, the money for the cheapest version(!) of that 17-inch PowerBook could get you a new M3 Max 16-inch with 128GB of RAM and 2TB of storage. holy cannoli
I love my 12" powerbook! It is fast enough for me and is the perfect size aound campus. I actually downgraded from macbook aluminum back to the 12" powerbook because the extra 1.3" made a difference to me and for the applications i was using, the macbook wasn't too much faster than my 12" powerbook. I do miss wireless N and isight camera and the awesome touchpad, but oh well. If anyone wants to make a transition to mac and doesn't have a lot of money, buy a powerbook G4 they're awesome.
Funny back then basic thing like ambient light sensor is a big highlight feature, imagine the FaceID and LiDAR sensors they spend so much times to talk about will be nothing in the future too
Apple has the chance now to really revolutionize their products again with Apple Silicon. I miss notebooks with tons of ports. They can do a lot with uwb tech as well…and need to revive the airport base station.
The screen resolution was way more high-def than all the other laptops at the time. It was a reasonable price for quality and innovation. Luckily the base model MacBook Pros today cost less than half as much.
Wait. He said "Worlds first 17" notebook". The wiki page says that a notebook is a computer designed for mobile use small enough to sit on ones lap. My computer doesn't fit that description :D Hehe this laptop was a monster. It weight 16 pounds and that doesn't make it mobile or convertible on your lap. So my was probably not a notebook :D it was a portable desktop computer with a screen :D
Macbook air thinnest and best ultrabooks. 11inch is unmatched by the competition, 13inch some competitors come close but it still wins. Thinnest full featured laptops this year (new macbook pros) probably 0.70inch across.
I had a 2009 atom, it was awful on RU-vid. I got a ARM Chromebook, RU-vid runs fine. Now if you looked at the date the comment was talking about now 5 year old processors, a lot has fucking changed.
Lol, way to reply to something a year old. A lot has happened. Also, we live in 2013, the GPU, CPU, and RAM are all utilized to near maximums. Also RU-vid is heavy on GPU, try RU-vid on an old Atom vs an old E350.
whoa, just saw the price. THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NINETY NINE!!!!!!!!! I can't even think of a laptop that costs that much today. even if you spec the shit out of a core i7 macbook pro i don't think it would be that much. wow. haha
dell laptops are beyond terrible, i agree with almost everyone here on that haha. I love watching these keynotes cuz it reminds me that the brand new macbook pro i just bought won't be obsolete for awhile : )
Yeah but what would that be? A MacBook with a dedicated video card & aluminum casing? Not really worth it for apple. Besides that would throw the price points way off. Because seriously are you going to pay $1800 for a MacBook Air or 12" MacBook Pro?
The reason Intel Atom netbooks suck: the GPU is non-existent. The new AMD E350, works much better than Atom in "practical" use, because there's a Radeon GPU. I promise you, any computer with a good GPU, can defeat a i5 without GPU, in any practical uses. What me and him were talking about were CPU Architectures. Not the actual CPUs. Yes I can make a shitty Intel processor, or a good one. But we were talking about potential.. ARM has a good shot at Intel in the Windows PCs. So shhhhhhh.
