According to several if not all contemporary reviews, the best thing about the
Powerbook 100 was the "ergonomic" placement of the keyboard, that no other manufacturer had gotten right before.
InfoWorld, for example, praised the design and called it "unique".
We all know that since then everybody and his dog designed laptops with large palmrests and a recessed keyboard.
Including, uh, Thinkpads and Dell machines, which previously looked like this:
Some manufacturers like - I
think, Epson - steadfastly refused to adopt the design.
And, perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, exited the laptop business.
The PB100 design was so solid that, 20+ years down the line, it's still the blueprint.
It is pretty interesting to list the ways in which the current MBP's (and, in fact, most notebooks') design is
similar to the PB100 rather than the ways it is different:
Now, the question is:
why.
Why
the actual **** would the new MBP have its keyboard in the most visually and ergonomically awkward place possible, which is: in such a way that the keyboard and the body share a centroid?
I suppose at this point we can go safely back to monochrome CRTs.
The
Compaq Portable was underrated, after all.
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But please no gold options!
The story goes that a high-end product is not taken seriously in China if it doesn't come in gold.
