Apple could one day use carbon fiber technology to strengthen its MacBook Pro displays, using the inserts to minimize damage to the screen from flexing the notebook’s top section, without adding any significant weight to the portable device, while also making it extremely thin. Given its nature of being designed for portability, notebooks like the […]
Tag: PowerBook
This website was pretty much founded on writing about Apple’s PowerBook line, so I thought this would be a nifty tidbit to pass along. For those of you whose history with the Mac only dates back to around five years, the PowerBook line was the first series of Mac laptops. When Apple made the jump […]
So, Friday was the 30th anniversary of the day Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. That iconic “hello” ushered in the era of the personal computer. I knew I’d have to do the ubiquitous anniversary article, but I didn’t realize how difficult it would be, and how many hours I’d loose strolling down memory lane on […]
By the time I graduated from high school in 1996, I was one of two people in my school routinely carrying a notebook computer through the halls of Providence Country Day in East Providence, Rhode Island. I carried a PowerBook 150 and one of my best friends, Josh Ledgard, carried a white Toshiba notebook that […]
Ok, remember the Australian glowing/fire/iPhone 4 plane thing from this past November? It wasn’t the battery. Per AppleInsider, an investigation into the cause of an iPhone 4 that began glowing and emitting “dense smoke” on a flight landing in Sydney, Australia last fall has traced the problem to a battery punctured by a screw misplaced […]