Worst Apple products(pcauthority.com.au)
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Worst Apple products
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Wow. This hadn't occurred to me before, but it also goes to show you how bad they were at naming. I mean, "Performa"? If that doesn't scream "budget line", I don't know what does.
With the exception of the hockey puck mouse, these were Sculley's monsters.
> OK, we can all have a giggle at 'portable' computers from the early days of computing but at nearly 16 pounds the Mac Portable really was taking the piss.
My first computer-of-my-very-own was my beloved Compaq Deskpro Portable (autoexec.bat ftw). It weighed in at just under 30 lbs.
Edit: I still have it some 25 years later, and it still works.
My first computer-of-my-very-own was my beloved Compaq Deskpro Portable (autoexec.bat ftw). It weighed in at just under 30 lbs.
Edit: I still have it some 25 years later, and it still works.
In my first job I had a portable III http://oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html - considerably lighter at a mere 20lbs!
It was great - when there wasn't a seat on the train or at the station I could sit on it.
It was great - when there wasn't a seat on the train or at the station I could sit on it.
As long as we're thinking about unusual Apple products, let's remember Macintosh TV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_TV
Another odd duck was the PoweCD. I owned one of these to go with my Duo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerCD
Did I say Duo? These dockable ultra-portables were fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo_2300c
Another odd duck was the PoweCD. I owned one of these to go with my Duo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerCD
Did I say Duo? These dockable ultra-portables were fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo_2300c
Wow. How could the forget about Mighty Mouse?
... OF ALL TIME
They only touched tangentially on the Performa line; what made the Performa so horrendous, was that certain models were actually slower than the models they replaced. For example, the Performa 5200 had a crippled IDE bus, and the motherboard was based on a Quadra 605 board, giving the 75Mhz PPC 603 chip less performance than a PPC601 running at 88Mhz. See http://lowendmac.com/ppc/performa-5200.html