PowerBook 540c.
If I had to name a Best Mac Of All Time, this would be it most days.
PowerBook 540c.
If I had to name a Best Mac Of All Time, this would be it most days.
@NanoRaptor Apple Quadra Vision
@thompsonize @jamesgecko I cannot stop seeing it like this - some kind of strange 4-dimensional tesseracted L-display.
@thompsonize @NanoRaptor There’s basically no reason for this form factor not to exist again with the M chips. It’s right there, but they chose to make a 15” Air.
@jamesgecko @NanoRaptor any opinions on this yet?
swappable cpu, 25mhz? with 040? 183mhz ppc? sure go for it, pull them in from other models. RAM? 36MB ain't a bad limit.
Amazing to think it was only four years later it was truly bested by another incredible series of PowerBooks, the Wallstreets - a refinement of exactly the same idea.
The 540c was damned near 1992's Quadra 950 flagship tower, but portable, just 2 years after it.
And given everything was heading portable, and is now, that's why it's my pick.
@NanoRaptor My pick is the 11" macbook air, it packed SO MUCH actual public transit / airport warrior portability, battery life, and unix-y goodness into 2.4 pounds, it felt godly.
And why I'd pick it; Just a few years after the closed-book became popular, it was a true desktop replacement. Most laptops, Mac or others, had a screen, keyboard, pointing device, serial port. Maybe networking. Maybe serial and video.
The 540c though: Stereo speakers, active matrix, 256 or thousands of colours, microphone, trackpad, floppy, dual batteries, or pc card in one bay, ethernet, serial, modem, adb, external video mirroring and spanning, scsi, in/out audio jacks...contd
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