Archive for the tag 'Apple'

Apr 22 2009

The 28lb ‘portable’ computer

Published byKarlin under Apple, technoculture

The NYT has this piece on notebooks, netbooks and the history of portability, and John Naughton blogs it with a couple of pics of his early ‘portables’. I had (actually, still have up in my attic as I can’t bear to part with my old friend) a ‘portable’ Mac SE from around 1990 with a [...]

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Jan 07 2009

When Gil met Steve

Published byKarlin under Apple, technoculture

I was doing some research for a piece for the Times on MacWorlds past, and dug up this piece I wrote from Macworld 12 years ago, when Steve returned to the fold. As a bit of historical documentation back when Apple’s demise was widely predicted, it might be of interest! I’d forgotten that even Muhammed [...]

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Dec 22 2008

Apple rumour mill begins to turn

Published byKarlin under Apple

Ah, yes, it’s that time of year again… when the Apple rumours start flying in advance of MacWorld in January (sadly, to be Job-less this year). MacRumors for example has found a listing on case maker XSKN’s site for a casing for an ‘iPhone nano’, suggesting such a mini iPhone may be in the offing. [...]

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