[typoon]

http://www.mobilepcmag.com/features/...gadgets-5.html


1. APPLE POWERBOOK 100, 1991
Never mind the Apple versus PC debate: Until Apple unveiled this 5.1-pound machine, most "portable" computers were curiosities for technophiles with superior upper-body strength. But the PowerBook 100's greatest and most lasting innovation was to move the keyboard toward the screen, leaving natural wrist rests up front, as well as providing an obvious place for a trackball. It seems like the natural layout now, but that's because the entire industry aped Apple within months. The first PowerBooks captured an astounding 40 percent of the market, but more important, they turned notebook computers into mainstream products and ushered in the era of mobile computing that we're still living in today.

4 Apple Products Make it to the Top 50

[TheBadgerHunter]

Few things that should have been on the list. Few that shouldn't have at all. Pretty decent though.

[typoon]

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
Few things that should have been on the list. Few that shouldn't have at all. Pretty decent though.

I know what you mean. I was thinking the missed a pretty big one. Apple Macintosh. or the Apple I since they brought computer to the rest of us.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by typoon:
I know what you mean. I was thinking the missed a pretty big one. Apple Macintosh. or the Apple I since they brought computer to the rest of us.

neither of those are very mobile are they? i presume that was one of their criteria for a gadget.

edit: this is a bit of a repost, but it's still damn cool.

HAHAHAH VVVV

[PurpleGiant]

Originally posted by typoon:
I know what you mean. I was thinking the missed a pretty big one. Apple Macintosh. or the Apple I since they brought computer to the rest of us.

They could hardly be called 'gadgets' though. The biggest gadgets on the list are laptops, not desktop computers.

EDIT: Damn dan and his 'NN priority pass that lets his posts of the same time jump in front of mine.

PS: Cue timeline