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Apple Original PowerBook Ad (video)
youtube.com - 10/13/2008
Apple Original PowerBook Ad (video)
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Apple Original PowerBook Ad. It's great way to meet girls!
ifixit.com - 10/16/2008
iFixit: iPod, iBook, & PowerBook Parts and Accessories
— ifixit.com — Search log in my account my orders my cart iFixit > Store You fix it . We make it easy . We enable you to repair your Apple PowerBook, iBook, MacBook or iPod yourself. Thousands of Mac + iPod parts, free Fixit Guides, and exceptional support. Macbook ... (more) iFixit: iPod, iBook, & PowerBook Parts and Accessories

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Remember This? Looking Back at the First PowerBook [Retromodo]
gizmodo.com - 10/13/2008
Remember This? Looking Back at the First PowerBook [Retromodo]
— gizmodo.com — With new Macbooks seemingly imminent , I thought it'd be a good time to look back in time to the first Apple laptop that changed portable computing forever: the original PowerBook. Back in 1991, Apple wasn't the company it was today. There was no ... (more) Remember This? Looking Back at the First PowerBook ...

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the mac os-x-box 360 [casemod]
technabob.com - 10/16/2008
the mac os-x-box 360 [casemod]
— technabob.com — In a surprise announcement, Microsoft revealed that the Xbox 360 will now be capable of running Mac OS X. Now that I’ve got your attention, what we’ve really got here is an Xbox 360 that’s been gutted and replaced with the brains of ... (more) the mac os-x-box 360 [casemod]

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Remember This? Looking Back at the First PowerBook [Retromodo]
Gizmodo — With new Macbooks seemingly imminent, I thought it'd be a good time to look back in time to the first Apple laptop that changed portable computing forever: the original PowerBook. Back in 1991, Apple wasn't the company it was today. There was no iPod, no iTunes Music Store, no iPhone. At the time, laptops (or "portable computers," such as the Macintosh Portable) were niche devices, extremely expensive and not all that practical. But the PowerBook 100 made some huge steps forward for laptops. While it wasn't the first portable computer to take what we see today ...

Journey down Powerbook memory lane...
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Gizmodo takes us back to the past with its retrospective on the powerbook.  Money quote: Watching this ad for the very first PowerBooks, it's funny to see Apple going hard after business users, the very same type mocked in today's Apple ads by John Hodgman. Sales reports! How very unhip. Before the MacBook became the laptop of choice of coffeshop-located freelance graphic designers, Apple wanted its laptops to be the choice of the suit set. The Powerbook was the cheapest of the three PowerBooks first introduced by ...

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