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This appears to be an early PowerBook 140 or 170 prototype.
- The plastic is smooth and black unlike the textured, grey production version.
- The keyboard and trackball are white, unlike the final version.
- It's missing the Apple logo on the outside of the case and in the lower left hand corner by the screen.
- It's missing the model information, normally on the lower left of the screen.
1995. Japan limited model "Blackbird".
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Close-up photo : Microphone.
This is my previous 12" Powerbook. I dropped him down the stairs at my old house, almost two years ago now. He'd already been knocked off of a desk by a classmate and fallen down some carpeted steps when the handle on a carrier broke. But the final straw was when I walked up the steps with the Powerbook in one hand and the power cord, still attached, in the other. The cord caught on the banister and pulled the laptop out of my hands, and he tumbled down the wooden steps. If only I'd had MagSafe back then...
But that's not the end of our story, dear caption reader. No, as you may be able to tell here, the Powerbook continued to function, albeit with a busted screen. For a time I used it in conjunction with an external monitor. Then I got my current laptop, Vassily, which is pretty much identical to this one except a little faster. Later I sold the old Powerbook to my roomate Jay, who used it for a while with a monitor, until he tripped over one of the wires and destroyed it utterly. Rest in pieces, little fella.
UPDATE 9/18/14
Crazy that TUAW (a blog I read religiously, btw) has catapulted this photo and PowerBook into internet fame. This photo looks so dated now that I look back on it, so many pieces of 10+ year old electronic gear. BTW, that open magazine is almost definitely a copy of MacAddict.
Another view of my workspace. Nothing spectacular. Its so clean because i just finished school (and all the projects that went along) and i got absolutely nothing on my mind (for a while ;)
We were spring cleaning our lab and I chanced upon this sweet box! It was from a time when the Apple logo had colors. By the way, anyone know why the Apple logo has a byte taken out of it? ^^. I was pretty excited when I found this. Does it even still work?
More about this photo at http://www.kenleewrites.com/2009/02/powerbook-duo-270c.html.
New in 2004, my 1 Ghz 17" Powerbook G4. RISC all the way, you Intel switchers... This laptop replaced a 667 G4 TiBook with a dying screen which in turn had replaced a Dell 600m Centrino, which was, for being Intel, a very good laptop in its own right (if not for Windows).
When it came to replacing my laptop, I had a good number of questions. My laptop is always at least 50/50 in use with my desktop, if not more. I try to keep them synched so I needed a large hard drive, and wanted the largest screen possible for running realtime video capture. The Aluminum case of these new 'books are much better than the weak Ti casing or the easily uglified iBook casing, of which I've owned many. The screen is truly an addiction, it's hard to downgrade to 1024x768 notebooks after. I use the above laptop for video editing, music work in Logic, live play using a midi controller and Garageband as a softsynth (sounds better than some real ones!), Photoshop, and of course, updating my Flickr account... oh, and Livejournal, don't forget that important aspect.
I started the laptop world with a Powerbook 180 surplused from Sandia National Labs. After that, I moved up to a Powerbook 520c, and used that until I got a Powerbook G3 266 14.1" and later an iBook 300 (I much prefer the Powerbook 266). I've since owned just about every Mac laptop made, for nostalgia's sake (heck, most were only a few bucks at gov't auctions, why not?). I've also owned 3 iceBooks, an original 500 (bought when they first came out), a 600 that was doused in alcohol to make the case clear, very very cool, and an 800. They worked great, but I kept coming back to the wide aspect screens and super high res displays of the Dells and Powerbooks.
On the x86 side, I've toted around Toughbooks, IBM Thinkpad 600's, Toshiba 4600's, a Sony Vaio, and a good number of Dells. Dell would be my favorite PC laptop brand, namely the Latitude C series and the Inspiron 4x00... but I've owned just about every type of Dell laptop as well, from the stupidly tiny LS to the 7500 with the screen so large it jutts out from the body on all sides when closed. My two favorite PC laptops are the Dell Inspiron 8100 and the Dell Inspiron 7500 15.4". with a few Centrino exceptions, I found the PIII to the be the best mobile chip in the x86 world.
My favorite laptop computer of all time is probably the black Powerbok G3- Wallstreet, Lombard, Pismo. My least favorite was certainly the Powerbook 5300.
We were spring cleaning our lab and I chanced upon this sweet box! It was from a time when the Apple logo had colors. By the way, anyone know why the Apple logo has a byte taken out of it? ^^. I was pretty excited when I found this. Does it even still work?
More about this photo at http://www.kenleewrites.com/2009/02/powerbook-duo-270c.html.
This appears to be an early PowerBook 140 or 170 prototype.
- The plastic is smooth and black unlike the textured, grey production version.
- The keyboard and trackball are white, unlike the final version.
- It's missing the Apple logo on the outside of the case and in the lower left hand corner by the screen.
- It's missing the model information, normally on the lower left of the screen.
Coming up to one year old, with a broken catch, one broken power adaptor, one unusable RAM slot, two white spots on the display, a loose battery and one owner who can't bear the loss of it for one week to get it all fixed. Must renew that Apple Care!
My 12" PowerBook with a Japanese sticker (105 Yen, about 0.75 Euro) saying "“koko de azon dewa ikemasen" which means "Don't play here!".
This appears to be an early PowerBook 140 or 170 prototype.
- The plastic is smooth and black unlike the textured, grey production version.
- The keyboard and trackball are white, unlike the final version.
- It's missing the Apple logo on the outside of the case and in the lower left hand corner by the screen.
- It's missing the model information, normally on the lower left of the screen.
Finally I got my Cinema Display 20", it looks great!!! Now I got better tool for freeware development. Hahahaha!
終於我拿到我的 Cinema Display 20" 了，現在不管玩電動還是開發程式、整理相片，爽度大增啊！
A lot of stuff for a tiny desk!
In fact, it overflows onto the floor, where there's an old Apple Pro keyboard for those times I really want a full keyboard.
And if anyone else is interested, the Super Mario Bros wallpaper can be found here: images.pyrospheric.net/v/wallpapers/NES_Nostolgia_Super_M...
As times got tough one by one I had to sell off my own computers. I went from a new PowerBook G4 or MacBook Pro 15" every year to a 10-year old, 400MHz G3 PowerBook and was surprised to learn that the Pismo can easily handle 90% of what I use a laptop for.
Here is my latest Apple computer, another PPC. This time it's a 1.5Ghz G4 with 512MB RAM (which I can only upgrade to 1GB, thanks to a faulty RAM slot) but it's going to perfect as my new main computer I think.
I'm getting a bit tired of Linux's instability, so I'm happy to give OSX a chance. I just hope I can get enough free software to meet my needs. In December however, I'll be installing the new release of MorphOS 3.0 on it (probably dual-booting) and that will be my most used OS from then on, I suspect.
Alpha desk setup in the new place. Will be moved into its own room when the new windows are installed, but I've been reconsidering that.
The notes are explain about the tools, but what's most important to me about the space is the light. The window is huge, and I've found it much easier to work here during the day than my previous, darker space.
To-do changes for this space: I'd paint one wall with the magnetic paint, so I can post things on the wall easily to visualize, and set up another section of the desk so I have large-format drawing and writing space.
I love the desk that I have at home: a 5'x3' former money-counting table which I've had since I highjacked it from my Dad when I was in high school. My office desk is sort of OK, but it's too small and too cluttered, what with the monitor, file box, giant phone and such. So my laptop desktop image is now a photo of my home desk, giving me happy-place feelings wherever I work.
For those keeping track, it's a 17" PowerBook running Tiger.
Annotated for the "What's on your desktop" group. The original image - sans notes and wide-screen cropping - is here: