Apr
22
2009
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 [...]
Tags: Apple, Mac SE, netbooks
Jan
07
2009
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 [...]
Tags: Apple, MacWorld
Dec
22
2008
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. [...]
Tags: Apple, MacWorld