And oh my, I wanted one. It looked stunning, and was just so tremendously powerful. I had just started working at MacUser magazine in London when they finally shipped, much later in , and my colleague and friend Kenny Hemphill succumbed. If I remember correctly, on the first day they were in the shops, he went down, slapped his credit card on the counter, and walked out with possibly the most desirable Mac that Apple had ever made—I was so jealous that he could do that.
And actually, this new material, aluminum, was much more resilient than the titanium shell of the previous PowerBook G4. As Jason Snell observed in his review, rather than you lifting the keyboard up to get at the internals, the AirPort Extreme card slotted in beside the battery, and there was an access panel on the bottom under which you could fit more RAM.
The Leopard operating system is equipped with network file sharing, Photo Booth, the Spotlight search feature, and the Safari 3 web browser. Skip to main content. Shop by Category.
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Having learned its lesson, Apple shifted gears a couple of years later and released a PowerBook G4 sheathed in aluminum. At the time, the choice of using aluminum probably came down to its strength and lightness. Color can even be added as part of the anodization process, a feature that Apple would use across several generations of the iPod mini and nano later in the decade. Though it was hampered by quality issues that would emerge over time, the Titanium PowerBook G4 was an immediate hit, showing Apple that it was on the right track.
The PowerBook G3 it replaced was 1. It also feels like a trailblazer in terms of the display itself. The screen is also impressively thin, even viewed from Finally, in another example of style over substance, the Titanium PowerBook G4 was the first Apple laptop to reorient the Apple logo on the back of the display so that it was upright when opened. At the time, the orientation of the Apple logo on laptops was heavily debated. Some people felt it was too weird to have the Apple logo upside-down when you were using it, while others took the view that it was weird to have the logo upside-down when you were reaching to open it up.
Guess which one looked better on television and in movies during product placement, as well as in cafes full of potential laptop buyers. Who knows how many products that glowing Apple logo 1 on the back of a laptop sold over the years? If you appreciate articles like this one, support us by becoming a Six Colors subscriber. Subscribers get access to an exclusive podcast, members-only stories, and a special community.
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