Apricot PicoBook Pro: First Look Review

Sweeter than an Apple? Apricot are back (for those of you who remember that they'd ever gone away) and back with a netbook! Katie Scott checks out the Apricot Picobook at the launch event.

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[05Rudey]

its a funky little thing, i hope Apricot goes into the tablet market.

[gold7y]

what happened to the fruit logo? did steve jobs sue them for it being too round or something?

[Funkstar124]

@brutfood Yeah I remember the Sirius. The one we had in Edgbaston Head Office blew to pieces over night for no particular reason and could have caused a fire and spelt the end for the whole building. Oh happy days! Talking of fires. The later Apricot Machines used to have the power supply the size of a vacuum cleaner externally which also used to keep my feet warm under the desk. Again, that one set alight one afternoon before leaving the office. Generally they were good though!

[Funkstar124]

That's right matey. I used to work for them back in 1987-1989. What a brilliant computer company. First with 3.5 inch floppy drive - FIRST with the wireless Keyboard on the Apricot F1. FIRST with voice recognition again with the F1. Their computers used to be like lightning compared to the IBM compatible equivalent. Every other computer on the market was boring and shit!

[Twirlyhead]

I seem to remember that Apricot were a reasonable manufacturer named to exploit the popularity of other, more famous, fruit based computers ... and now they're back with - oh wow ! a notebook ! .... good luck anyhow fellas.

[brutfood]

I remember publishing a program for the Sirius in Practical Computing... must have been the early 1980's, I also remember Apricot's strong presence at the PCW show at Earls Court ('83?) - and goodie bags and stickers being given away with the slogan "Go 4th with Apricot"... They were promoting it as a 4th generation computer. (not sure what qualified it as such).

[brutfood]

Apricot are historically significant. I thought they'd expired years ago. I wish they had - it's sad to see this footnote to their history - a Windows PC clone maker.

Background: Chuck Peddle (6502 fame) designed a (8088 based) computer called the ACT Sirius (Victor 9000). It established a foothold in the UK before the IBM PC was born and eventually sold in Europe. The Apricot was software compatible with the Sirius. Not IBM compatible - pitched as a competitor. It did well for a while.

[kyleain]

I read in gizmag its got expresscard34, yet neither in this video or that site do they say this

[kdramasrcool]

what an apple macbook copy cat, 'Apricot PicoBook Pro' pshhhhh.

[PlayBeyondNews]

rofl, man this pc is no better than the Acer aspire, or the dell netbooks. plus it loks like a chea childs toy all black like something you get like a leapfrog, or fake chinese macbook.

even the name picobook wetf lol.

hahahaha

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