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iBook Turns 20: Watch Steve Jobs Unveil the World's First Notebook With Wireless Internet
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and here you are sitting on a chair reading mac rumors all day instead of going and helping those poor children.
Refreshing to see how far we've come. Sure, the systems are really only faster and more feature-packed than they were 20 years ago, but it's still amazing to see the journey.
I fondly remember when Apple sold the 12” and 14” white iBooks.
- The 12” iBook had 3.5-4 hours of real-world battery life, while the 14” had 5-6 hours. Competitors had ~2 hours.
- Competitors (IBM mostly) sold their ultraportable laptops for $3.5-4k because of its size. Apple sold their 12” iBook for $999, LESS than the 14” iBook.
- Wireless option was cheap and reliable compared to competitors.
Right, but it's used for.... wait for it.... animojis.
At best, you can make the claim that FaceID technology is an upgrade from TouchID, but it's not a new paradigm like WiFi was.
Very true...Tim is not a wizard like Jobs was to cast a spell on me to tell me what I don't need...
or a jedi to do a mind trick on me and say.. "pay low cost of $1,000 for a stand"...
True..Jobs was a great salesman!!
The original iBook still looks fresh af. In a world of square space gray boxes, I'd love to see some colorful aesthetic fruit again.
Yes..BUT salesman Steve got you to buy the extra card and airport as you went out the door with your colorful clam laptop...classic.
Because Apple is having issues/resistance from global carrier partners to implement imbedded eSIMs which certainly is what Apple is after.
Moreover where is the Apple MacBook Pro that undergoes military grade testing for dust/drop testing!?
Truly electric indeed. I'd say Forstall and Serlet had a similar bond with Apple fans in their time. Schiller is the kid at school that can sit at any lunch table (auto invited)
Everyone who thinks Apple got cheaper must be out of his mind.
Notebooks nowadays cost about 500$ and you get a decent machine for office work, web browsing, etc that has 16 gg ram and a decent ssd. If you wanna go Apple, you have to pax 3-4 times more than for a windows machine...
In the early 2000s, an Apple with same internals as a Wintel machine was maybe only 10-20% more expensive...
Greedy Cook wants to squeeze his customers like lemons...
Notebooks nowadays cost about 500$ and you get a decent machine for office work, web browsing, etc that has 16 gg ram and a decent ssd. If you wanna go Apple, you have to pax 3-4 times more than for a windows machine...
In the early 2000s, an Apple with same internals as a Wintel machine was maybe only 10-20% more expensive...
Greedy Cook wants to squeeze his customers like lemons...
Actually, they are exactly the type of people that change the world for the better. Even for those things you claim they don’t. They would certainly do a more meaningful and better job than your run of the mill UN technocrats.
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Actually the base MBP with a 256GB drive is pretty much the same price as the equivalent dell latitude or HP elitebook. The MBP is better than those two in most respects, especially a higher res, much brighter screen, only missing a USB-A port.
This is one of the things which will be addressed in the new WPA3 standard. Should make identity thieves' lives much harder.
Even to this day I still drool every time I see a clamshell iBook. I never had one because they were too underpowered, but oh did I ever want one.
yep..so true.
where as Tim Apple priorities are releasing partner emoji's with all colors/races and god knows how many combinations...
It was actually quite useful within ones own home, though. Of course, I had to buy the Airport card and base station, but I loved being able to take my indigo iBook to different rooms of the house and still have internet access.
I sure wish there was a handle on my 2018 15" MacBook Pro. They could make something retractable. (G4 cube comes to mind...)
Damn old Apple was so awesome.
Design - completely different (not just in aesthetic, but direction) to anything else out there... to put a handle on the iBook was so cool
Tech - Ahead of everybody else. A $1600 notebook that was faster than any other competitor’s notebook?
Pricing - lower pricing for accessibility!
Fun - when was the last time you felt like you were a part of Apple’s presentation? No, now it’s all about multi million dollar celebrity endorsements and Hermes for the rich and famous.
Design - completely different (not just in aesthetic, but direction) to anything else out there... to put a handle on the iBook was so cool
Tech - Ahead of everybody else. A $1600 notebook that was faster than any other competitor’s notebook?
Pricing - lower pricing for accessibility!
Fun - when was the last time you felt like you were a part of Apple’s presentation? No, now it’s all about multi million dollar celebrity endorsements and Hermes for the rich and famous.
True that things are way faster and sleeker nowadays, but you have to admit the good ol’ days of Jobs were so much more fun.
When Steve said something, you felt it was coming from the heart. Of course he was a master salesman, but his conviction sounded so genuine.
With Tim, everything that comes out of his mouth, sounds scripted and rehearsed.
I think these days people are just used to new features and fast technological advancements and became kind of spoiled kids who take anything for granted.
If someone have shown Face ID just 10 years ago then people would gone mad, because it’s really cool. Who could imagine that your phone one day will be able to recognize your face to unlock it? It’s a real achievement.
iPhone itself is just 12 years old. And look how far and how fast it evolved.
The problem is how to upgrade? A simple software upgrade or a costly hardware upgrade? And, how much incentives do supermarkets, Starbucks and users upgrade for WPA3? What about the device support? There are so many questions.
