I remember these days. Legitimately new technology nobody had ever seen before being introduced, not just minor iterations on existing ideas.
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Steve Jobs Talks iBook, AirPort, and More in Newly Surfaced 1999 Video
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The Cockney Rebel
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Once again, Steve was way ahead of time. He coined MAGA -- "Make Apple Great Again"
*shrug* I prefer thin, light, durable, powerful laptops for travel and work. I'll take the changes as the price of that preference. I typically get 5-7 years out of a laptop which I then hand down to someone who is fine with the hardware config. They typically last 10 years of solid use.
I'm good with that.
muzocan
macrumors newbie
I’m a big fan of the “quadrant”. Nowadays, buying an iPad would leave me utterly confused about which one to choose. I miss the simpler days.
Andreas from Zurich
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This is the one false step, product-wise, for me. Airports were, hands down, the best home routers I've ever used. I kept my Airport Extreme working until last year when I finally replaced it with a Ubiquiti router.
This seems like the right place I suppose, but howabout this interview he gave to UK Gaming Mag ARCADE (possibly by way of MacFormat?) back in 1999 I unearthed from a PDF the other day?
Amusingly the opposite interview was with Danny John-Jules aka Cat from Red Dwarf (he voiced Gex in Gex 3 on PS1) What a time.
Amusingly the opposite interview was with Danny John-Jules aka Cat from Red Dwarf (he voiced Gex in Gex 3 on PS1) What a time.
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Why? There are four ipads to choose from:
Pro, Air, "regular", and Mini.
There are your four choice. What's tough to choose from there?
iPad - Compare Models
Compare resolution, size, weight, performance, battery life and storage of iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad and iPad mini models.
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R2FX
macrumors 6502
I suggest you research more when Apple acquired PA Semi and when Srouji joined
OS X was compiled from beginning for PPC and Intel and it was planned since its inception to own the full computing stack
Tim merely allowed margins to expand to finance this, but he didn’t drive this effort
klasma
macrumors G4
The Neo proves that you can't have both.
The neo should be *much* lighter than the Air. But it's not. Because of the replaceable parts.
muzocan
macrumors newbie
Thanks. Let's have a look at the one and only iPad that's been released in 2010. It was much easier to choose from – even my dad could get one for himself.Why? There are four ipads to choose from:
Pro, Air, "regular", and Mini.
There are your four choice. What's tough to choose from there?
iPad - Compare Models
Compare resolution, size, weight, performance, battery life and storage of iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad and iPad mini models.www.apple.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20100411021902/http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
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From what I've read, the main weight is in the non-machined body, and the steel trackpad lever thing (it's 7% of weight, alone), not the parts like mainboard and battery.
They could have offered a weight-saving CNC machined body with the same internal parts and it would have been lighter, but the cost would go up quite a bit.
Ah, what I would give to go back to that time in the world…we truly didn’t know how wonderful we had it at the time. Just enough tech to be amazing, without it robbing us of every drop of peace and sanity in our lives. Peace in much of the world, too.
Been going pretty steadily downhill ever since…
Been going pretty steadily downhill ever since…
Nope. The empty shell and keyboard is about 8g lighter on the neo vs the air.
The biggest single weight increase is the metal stiffener under the trackpad.
Then there's the metal sled that the battery is glued to which is then screwed down to the chassis.
It's a death of a 1000 cuts bringing up the weight of the neo. All the brackets and screws and stiffeners to account for the different build.
The neo is built the way it is to keep it low cost. This is great. But because of this it's nowhere near as thin and light as it could be. And that's fine. It's targeted differently. But if they glued and riveted everything down the situation would be much different.
eveluvsrainbows
macrumors 6502a
You are wrong. Apple doesn’t have too many things in the lineup. As an example, it’s still the core MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, along with the MacBook Neo in the laptop range, with the iMac and Mac mini forming the core desktop portfolio (Mac Pro is still sold but for how long I don’t know). I’ve never been confused by Apple’s lineup, even as they have added more products to e.g. the iPhone product range.
Saying Cook has ruined Apple is the most incorrect statement you can make, considering just how much he has grown Apple since 2011. He has grown Apple into a company that now has billions of customers and nearly 3 billion active devices. Jobs never would’ve accomplished that with the strategy he had.
It’s important to have options. I don’t know anyone who actually complains about having options. It’s called diversifying, having products to satisfy a wide range of price points and to appeal to a wide range of potential customers. That is how you grow your customer base.
Jobs’ opinion that stuff should be streamlined might’ve been okay in the 90s, but not today. Choices are more important than ever in this day and age, especially when people don’t have infinite money to spend.
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Lioness~
macrumors 601
The 1st wave of missing him was of course when he died, as we do with people who with people that meant something for us, close and afar. The 2nd wave came when my interest for the company died too.
Yes, Apple, the company, means nothing to me anymore, it's just some products that I still need.
Happy_John
macrumors 65816
...and then Jobs went on to create at least two new-to-the-industry product categories with the MacBook Air and the Mac Mini, so who's fault is it that the Mac lineup now has more than four products?
The whole "4 quadrant" thing was designed for a company circling the drain, with a messy line-up of beige "Performa" boxes and sidelines like cameras and the Newton which both needed a ton of investment to bring up to scratch. It did its job - today's Apple can afford to have more than 4 products.
(...and, of course, after coming up with his 'concentrate-on-our-core=strengths' matrix, he went off on a completely random tangent and made a music player... which is probably the real reason that Apple isn't now just a laptop brand owned by Lenovo).
Why?
Airport was something special in 1999 when WiFi connectivity on PCs was a hot mess and WiFi routers/WAPs tricky to set up. It was very easy to hook in to an existing ethernet and use to set up a network of MacBooks. Doing WiFi on PCs was a bit messy, with driver hell etc. so Apple had an opportunity.
In 2026 most people get issued a WiFi router by their internet provider, pre-configured to hook up to broadband (which is the safest bet unless you're a techie). It also has to work with your TV, your multi-room stereo system, games console, your Apple-hating friends & relatives' PCs and Androids... and millions of people somehow manage to use these. If you buy your own router its probably because you want the sort of technical operations that an Apple "just works" AirPort would miss out... but even those are pretty straightforward to set up.
What do people think a modern AirPort router would do to distinguish itself? Liquid Glass interface?
