PowerBooks - MacWorld 94

[rkotm]

i wonder if he talks like that at home.."DEAR whats for DINNER??"

[iconRTS]

My phone has more capabilities than those things

[Anth0nyRey]

the design of 280c is nice i think

[flamingaxe791]

Solar powered laptop? Wtf!

[Dubstep4reel]

old mac`s: weigt 5 pounds.

Todays mac: weight 0,000000001 pound



[ryanisoutthere]

I remember the Powerbook 1XX series had some of the nicest Black and White screens. :)

[roblamper]

i still use me powerbook 540c !!!!!!!

[MegaHazzer123]

wow all that for less than $1500?

[nhking4]

hahahah My PC is More Powerful-

[andddreass]

@nhking4 OMG REALLY???

[AdrianoCROST]

I haved PowerBook 520c with really fast 68k 25Mhz CPU, 8 MB RAM and screen with 256 colors. It was really nice and much better than PC laptops in that time. PC laptops was big ugly boxes with trackballs. :)

[EmperorOfMars]

Apple really ahead of the game with design. Not necessarily technological inovation

[jackmarshak]

Sneaking in the back door lol!

[modernclics]

When is it coming out??

[loshanagan]

This is how much Microsoft will have advanced in the year 2050.

[MacOSXMason]

Those things are fast. Lion runs like a boss.

[malcommerriweather]

Sneaking in the backdoor lol

[craig9569]

i have a powerbook 150. its fucking beast, much better for playing games than my macbook pro

[Mr3dfred]

With the power of the universeeeee!

[lctb51]

66mhz processor lol, ram runs faster than that now lol

[kipper905]

i bet it can run crysis then the M17X

[mesostinky72]

That solar battery they talked about sounded like a very good deal considering the time it was offered. $200 in 1994 for a solar panel that could run a laptop for unlimited periods while there was sun is something I definitely could have used.

[flirtwd]

those were the days boy!! I remember me and my old man going into compusa for a pc and I happened to see the powerbooks, two of them side by side, with a sticker price of about $4000.00. Damn! This was 1993. Holyshit. The oldman picked up some off brand pc for $2000.00 running at 50mhz. And the effing printers were expensive to. The upright canon ink jets were going for $499.00. He got it. great printer. The pc was a POS. Sound card always fucking up. Played jezzball all day!!!

[86123maxxi]

The presenter got it wrong, the 68LC040 processors ran at 33 MHz not 66 MHz

[SNESosT]

impressive, but can it fit in a vanilla envelop?

[theunamazingone]

@SNESosT 'vanilla envelop' I thought some one would get it wrong its actualaly manilla and you spelt 'envelope' wrong

[SNESosT]

@theunamazingone well I guess i better drink my own piss

[FUNGALBALLZ4ALL]

@theunamazingone WTF is actualaly?? And isn't it "someone"?????

[theunamazingone]

@FUNGALBALLZ4ALL Yes.

[malcommerriweather]

@theunamazingone

And you spelled 'spelled' wrong. And no, it is NOT spelt.

[theunamazingone]

@malcommerriweather It's a 5 month old post, piss off and troll some newer posts.

[0neofthem]

those powerbooks look really good and this was before jobs came back.

[BrandonScott1001]

If people could see this now, then they would be really happy!!!

[tallirasha]

why does he talk with upwards inflection on each sentence it's so annoying!

[ArcadeGames]

Our first real home computer in 1993 cost us about 3,000 bucks...

[dieselboi91]

in 15 years from now i'm gonna be looking at my macbook pro and hve the same thought as i did in this video. "did that really cost 2000 bucks?"

[Danny77uk]

Old Apple's big mistake was that it concentrated on the 'business market' while ignoring average consumers. They re-packed old technology and yesterday's specs into LCs and 'Performers' with confusing model numbers. The powerbook 150 is a perfect example - it had fewer features than the old '91 Powerbook 170 and had an inferior screen.

Of course, most people bough the cheaper machines and found them wanting next to the latest IBM clones that were selling at commodity prices.

[1234cdog1234]

this is sooooo funny

[Athos523]

so which PowerBook did they show in Independence Day?

[Arakmatzu]

@Athos523 a PowerBook 5300.

[Athos523]

@Arakmatzu cool thanks.

[o1995]

Lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kpappletech]

HOLY SHIT!!! A 66 MHz!~~

And to think, the iPhone 3G in my pocket is clocked in at 412 MHz.

lol

kp

[PedrosProductions]

3700 fucking dollars?

[NitekMuscle]

More than a decade and a half ago? Oh yes.

[Danny77uk]

@PedrosProductions In mid-90s dollars don't forget. Still a lot of money but any computer back then cost in excess of $2000.

[ryfin2000]

I sold a powerbook 180c the other day. Made $30 :)

[JohnHFilms]

my powerbook 150 plays crysis great :)

[314noceu]

16 years later and my Mac notebook STILL WON'T FUCKING PLAY CRYSIS.

[macnerd93]

LOL your an idiot. Macbook Pros have been able to play Crysis for over 2.5 years. The new ones with the Nvidia 9600GT graphics run it great

[314noceu]

LOL you fuckin fanboi... I LOVE macs.. I was just being sarcastic you douche.

[macnerd93]

why is that sarcastic though?, its not true

[richardbirch2007]

/facepalm @ you not getting the joke.

[nikonfseries]

or the iphone

[rocketrig]

can you imagine someone walk in and shows them - SMARTPHONE POCKET PC with Windows Mobile lol at 600 mhz

[planefreak3]

lol then they would be drooling for those specs

[nikonfseries]

u see those speakers at 2.14

i own a pair of them and still use them

time for an update

[simon1234simon]

why? speakers are speakers. They aren't getting any better. i still have a hi-fi system from 70s and it sounds awsome. i also have 2.1 cambridge speakers from 1996, also very good. really no need to update unless they aren't working correctley.

[rabbitsib]

I remember around this time I played with my teachers computer and screw it up those were the days :)

[fairyheli2]

aspire one is tiny , this thing is huge!

[airsoftkid97]

dude, this video seems like a joke, because tech today is so much better! 4lb! macbook air:around a pound... and THIN as hell!

[AndrewKarrrrrr888882]

ha my lap top i have has a 17" screen amazing how far tech has come

[adryanv]

Technology should be judge of what is available at the time. During its day the 100 series Powerbook was a great computer. Of course computers right now are much better but In 20 years from now our kids will be laughing at todays fastest Quad core computers.

[ufster81]

In 20 years, me saying to my kid as I choke him..

"I'll teach you laugh at yesterdays fastest quad core computers!!!"

j/k

[nagarjun424]

S-WEET!

[VectronicsAppleWorld]

That is not a 280c. It a 540c or a 520c. The 280c was actually a PowerBook Duo. Wow, I can't believe they got that wrong. They did get it right at the end when they showed the "PowerBook 500-series," which was the same laptop they called the 280c.

[Btroisi13]

i hate iMovie 08, but i love this video! Good work!

[pja7]

Interesting archive - thanks for posting