Comment by bluedino
5 years ago
I thought of these things the same way as the original iMac. Cutesy, but underpowered and nothing to get real work done on, especially with the low screen resolutions.
5 years ago
I thought of these things the same way as the original iMac. Cutesy, but underpowered and nothing to get real work done on, especially with the low screen resolutions.
Indeed, the contemporaneous PowerBook G3 "Pismo" was the better machine all around. It was faster, more expandable, more upgradeable with the CPU on a daughter card, and even with the larger 1024x768 display it weighed 1 pound less than the iBook. Of course, it also cost $900 more.
I dailied a Pismo until the Intel Mac era, even after Leopard dropped support for G3s midway through its beta cycle. I didn't get my hands on one of the 550mhz G4-upgraded CPU cards until a few years later, but Tiger was a way more cohesive and enjoyable release anyway before all the fun got wrung out of OS X. Easily the greatest Mac portable of all time imo https://i.imgur.com/xUYBUG3.jpg