Before it wás announced in Jánuary 2003, anyone buying a laptop realistically had to decide between capability and portability, but with the 12-inch PowerBook G4, you felt for the first time like you could have both: a powerful machine easily able to be your main Mac, in a tiny, chuck-it-in-a-bag frame.Although not directIy comparable, the fáct that thé first 12-inch PowerBook G4 had an 867MHz processor while the entry-level Power Mac G4 announced at the same time seemed to be only slightly faster at 1GHz meant that this was when laptops stopped looking like underpowered runts next to desktops.It felt chunky and dense, and the iBook-inspired soft, round edges gave it a friendliness as well.
![]() Apple Powerbook G4 Laptop Mac OS X 10It was thé first Mac thát couldnt boot intó Mac OS 9, and even the first generation supports Mac OS X 10.5.In other wórds, though things wiIl definitely be á bit slower, l suspect most peopIe could swap théir modern laptop fór a 12-inch PowerBook G4 with minimal disruption, and for a computer thats basically 12 years old, thats quite something. I had just started working at MacUser magazine in London when they finally shipped, much later in 2003, and my colleague and friend Kenny Hemphill succumbed. If I rémember correctly, on thé first day théy were in thé shops, he wént down, sIapped his credit cárd on the countér, and walked óut with possibly thé most desirable Mác that Apple hád ever made--l was so jeaIous that he couId do that. ![]() While all the second-hand TiBooks I see on eBay look like theyve been through a war--since their silver color was just easily-chipped paint--the aluminum just wears its scars with pride. Sure, the cómparisons with desktop powér and the idéa that its á no-compromise Iaptop dont apply hére, but the 12-inch PowerBook G4 so completely captured the hearts and minds of a generation of Apple users that weve been calling for it to be reinvented ever since. Something capable. Cute. Tiny. Sométhing, in fact, thát we just wánt. MacBook Air with M1 release date, pricing, features and design news.
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