Wow, and now in Sequoia the desktop pictures and screensaver video folders are each almost 1% of total HD space and 100% of the RAM of the top of the line model! That's why they were nice though... you could upgrade those things!The entry-level model featured a 1.67 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, and an 80GB hard drive, while the higher-end model boasted a 1.83 GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 100GB hard drive.
# du -h -d0 /System/Library/Desktop\ Pictures
770M /System/Library/Desktop Pictures
# du -d0 -h "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/"
1.0G /Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/
Why couldn't they retain it? I dont mind the naming change, but worth pointing out it wasnt forced. The name powerbook for apple’s laptops predated using PPC, it wasnt named for the arch, they could have kept using it, they chose not toGreat computer with a dumb name. PowerBook was a pretty good name, but obviously they couldn't retain it.
Did not the fist gens come only with the ATI Mobility?
Much preferred the name PowerBook though - much nicer ring to it..
Last year, this day, it was 18 years!
Yeah I guess it was aluminum but it still was a lot of funErrm....Apple never made a 17" TiBook. The big fella was only released in 2003 after the switch to Aluminium a year earlier.
Back to the nostalgia-fest, I remember it less as the announcement of the MBP and more the death notice of the G5 PowerBook 😢 I still have my pristine TiBook and she's still functional.
I think it was… until the Surface Laptop 6, where they phased out Alcantara palm rests and switched all models to aluminium.Hmm... I think the Surface laptop is the best looking laptop at the moment.
The PowerBook G4-style or "pre-unibody" design was somewhat easy to repair but the Unibody was the BEST. Just 10 screws, pop that cover, and boom - you have access to all of the important stuff. In it's final days, my 13" Unibody was dual-wielding 1TB SSDs via a $20 Chinese knock-off of an old product called the "MCE OptiBay" which was used by "Power users" back in the day when their work was so important they needed TWO storage disks in their Mac.The first gen MacBook pros were great. Honestly I miss them. I loved how repairable they were.
the 17" was only 1440x900 pix. At that time I had 1920x1280 pix on my Dell LatitudeYeah I guess it was aluminum but it still was a lot of fun
I so remember watching this on QuickTime on the day live. It was very choppy and rough compared to todays high speed internet standards (I think I was watching over dial-up at the time) but it was sure exciting! Apple was really a computer company back then.Yeah I guess it was aluminum but it still was a lot of fun
They needed to be as they had major overheating issues and broke down frequently. It only got better once Apple moved to the unibody and sorted a lot of the problems out.The first gen MacBook pros were great. Honestly I miss them. I loved how repairable they were.
Actually just going back to MacIntosh as a name instead of Mac Pro for the flagship would be a nice use of the name.Great computer with a dumb name. PowerBook was a pretty good name, but obviously they couldn't retain it.
My dream (which I know will never happen, so no need to tell me) is for Apple to return to using the full name "Macintosh". Seeing that full name in the font that was used on 1980s Macintosh computers just seemed very classy to me. My first was the Macintosh IIsi. It's fine to use 'Mac' in conversation, but I like seeing the full "Macintosh" spelled out for the official name of the product itself.
As you say, the original PowerBook models ran various 68k processors, and the first PowerPC wasn't released until 4 years later. In fact, I believe the PowerBook 100 used a 68000, which was originally released way back in 1979.Is the basis for this claim the association of "Power" (in "PowerBook") with "PowerPC"? The original PowerBooks still had 68k processors -- PowerPC didn't come until a few years later -- so I don't see a reason they couldn't have if they wanted to.
I don't mind it now, but I definitely agree that "MacBook" sounded weird to say for a while...
I so agree with you. Love PowerBook over MacBook Pro and still don't get why they had to change it. Power is power and is unrelated to the PowerPC chip.I also agree completely on the naming--I still remember how absolutely wrong the "MacBook" name felt at the time, and unlike the x86 CPU squick-factor, I never really got over that. Honestly I still think PowerBook sounds better.