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  • Apple's PowerBook reinvented the laptop thirty years ago

    My first ever laptop (and my 2nd Mac) was the 2nd generation Powerbook ... the 160, purchased around October 1992.   It certainly was a nice machine for its time.  And I still own it, though I don't think it powers on anymore.

    Fun comparison between my first Mac laptop and, 29 years later, my on-order 2021 MBP:

    RAM  
    Powerbook 160: 4mb
    MBP 2021: 32gb (~8000x)

    Hard drive
    Powerbook 160: 40 mb
    MBP 2021: 1 tb (~25000x)

    CPU transistors:
    Moto 68030: 273,000
    M1 Pro: 33,700,000,000  (~123,000x)



     
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra
  • MagSafe on the new MacBook Pro: Everything you need to know

    Is there a MagSafe 2 to 3 adapter?

    I hope there will be.  When I went from a MBP with Magsafe 1 to Magsafe 2, I sprung for a couple adapters (around $6 each at the time), and, voila, my old Magsafe 1 chargers were still usable.  So, I'd love a Magsafe 2 to 3 adapter.  I'd also love a Magsafe 1 to 3 adapter, so I don't have to have adapter upon adapter.


    watto_cobra
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook buys Southern California mansion for $10.1M

    As a part-time resident of La Quinta, let me be the first to say it... There goes the neighborhood. :smile: 
    First it was the Kardashians, then Aunt Becky and now Mr. Cook.  Sheesh, the riff-raff that moves in around here.  Just kidding.  Welcome, TC, if I see you pushing a grocery cart up the road at Ralph's, I'll say hello.
    dewmewilliamlondon