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June 07, 2006

vintage

13 years later, and look where we are

Authored by Scott Silverman at 9:06 AM
Category | Hardware » Vintage
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200606071317Here at MacUser, we like to keep things in perspective, and to appreciate the present, we must first understand the past. That’s why I’m posting on an Apple days-of-old computer today.

This day in history, June 7th, 2006, marks the 13th anniversary of the introduction of the PowerBook 180c laptop (ehm, excuse me, notebook) computer. As a successor to the 165c computer, it featured a 80 or 120 MB hard drive and 4 MB of RAM. It also featured a 640x480 256-color active matrix screen. The computer carried a price tag of $4160.

Just remember the PowerBook 180c and its 4 MB of RAM every time you complain that your new MacBook has integrated graphics.

[via Apple Matters]


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