The only nod toward portability on the 1984-era Macintosh as shipped was its carrying handle.However, he left the company before this could amount to anything.It weighs in at a lap-deadening 15.8 pounds.
Intosh Portable Mac AlsoThe first portable Mac also measured more than 4 inches thick, and took up 225.7 square inches of desk (or lap) real estate.![]() And the price wasnt actually too unreasonable if you wanted to get hold of a rival computer with comparable performance. It also included a gorgeous 9.8-inch active-matrix LCD display, offering 640-by-400-pixel black-and-white graphics. A later upgrade brought backlighting to the Mac Portable, although that cut battery life in half. Like the original Mac, it fared better critically than it did commercially. It wasnt until the later launch of the PowerBook that Apple really started finding its groove with mobile computers. ![]() Sadly, they didnt represent enough of a market segment at the time to make it a hit. ![]()
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