@@flebnard He's lucky Steve Jobs wasn't at Apple at this time, he would be fired for botching the demo. My guess is that the computer shut itself off since the case was opened, I know a lot of Apples from the 80s would do the same thing.
@@Kajayacht It simply crashed. Don't know why but the cover has nothing to do with it. I have a Portable and the plastic cover doesn't have to be on for it to work. I don't know of any other Macintosh that shuts itself off because the cover is removed.
@@dj2bklyn but if you REALLY know anything about Gary, you know he would have had a different life, had he sold his CP/M operating system to IBM. Instead, IBM purchased "DOS" from Microsoft, and the rest is history. 💁🏻♂️🖥️💰
That's because there's a switch on the back that senses if that cover has been removed. You're not supposed to remove it when the machine is running, and the cover supposed to be in place when powering it on. The machine did what it was supposed to do, "crash" because the back cover wasn't on. If that dude was a tech guy instead of salesman, he would have known that.
@@cathaven3801 Not only that, but the 4-8k in 1989 is, with inflation adjustment, equal to 8000 - 16000 today. I don't think one can even find a laptop that costly today even fully spec'd out.
When I had first seen this particular episode in 1989 I liked the idea of having a portable laptop computer, but the prices of those machines were painfully out of my price range. Nearly thirty years later and I still cannot afford the cost of the newest laptops, however the price of a second hand laptop is almost within my budget.
Sorry if I'm not understanding what you're referring to, but I remember before smartphones when every phone had a different charger. That was such a pain in the butt.
@@weaponofmassconstruction1940 That's an approximation of the "no standards" problem of computing in 1989. There were issues of secondary storage (disks or something like it) and peripheral connection being unique to each manufacturer. (The PC Card/Memory Card Industry Association didn't yet exist.)
@@floydjohnson7888 PCMCIA card standard was all the rage with the fax/modem a few years later. Pop the fax.modem card, connect to POTS/ISDN and log onto bulletin board like ExecPC which then connected to early Internet.
The Macintosh presentation was funny as he essentially showed it's issue. You can take out the battery but there was clearly no guarantee it would boot back up as he had to reset it in the end.
26:56 A father and son who had lost contact for 29 years found each other again via CompuServe. That is a mark of how difficult it was for people to find each other in the world before Facebook became widespread.
Not really, considering there is no backlight involved. Your typical wireless keyboard today has more processing power than that entire palmtop does and can run for hundreds of hours.
If people really wanted longer battery life they would not get mobile devices you can comfortably use without having to have charger and wall socket on hand. With monochrome backlight-less TN panel which refreshes only what actually changed and very low clock you could have eg. smartphone which would work for days. Software could be written optimally leading to similar actual experience... but nothing beats colorful flashing ads on your smartphone hence we have micro-computers with performance of not so old desktop computers
Best of all it only weighs 94 lbs!! This 300 watt baby costs only $37,000 and stores its memory on 128 kilobyte, 6 pound, $750 memory cards. You can throw them and kill an assailant!
At this time in history especially in 1989 they already had touch tablets pen point based and. small. desktop organizers. like palm pilots and labtop were emerging but i would doubt that thier. battery life. in 1989 was three hour probalble about 10 minutes . but at. how. along way computers have comes now labtops are gaming computers and Macbook Pro are now gaming. computers with 8 gb of. video memory and this is amazing how far we came.. I was born around 1990. Go Computer Chronicles RIP Gary Kiddal.
These were all expense account purchases. B2B sales stuff. Individuals weren’t buying this stuff. 9k then is like 30k now and the only thing they did was work stuff.
That or they'd be surprised were not further along. If you compare the progress made between 1989 and 1999 and then 2009 to 2019 you can see Moore's Law has almost ground to a halt.
I think they would be more mindblown by the fact you travelled in time than your puny iPad. The iPad was conceptualised in the 60’s, and wouldn’t surprise these guys one tiny bit.
Those prices in the early days of computers were ridiculous. $8500, $7000, for no color, no memory, no hard drive space, really heavy form and no internet. So glad computers have rapidly evolved. No wonder my dad bought us a second hand C64/128 and we kept that baby for years...
Holy (expletive)! IIRC, the street price of a C64 in 1984 was about $200-250 (this was in a notoriously economically-depressed bit of Rust Belt called Northwest Indiana)
@nthnbt8 It is Season 7, Episode 4 so counting back from episodes with known air dates in March 1990 (718 on March 1, 720 on March 15) you would get Thursday, November 23, 1989, assuming a broadcast every week. Occasionally, there would be multiple broadcasts in a week, and some weeks of course had no CC episode. The season usually started in late September, so this episode could have been as early as mid October. On the other hand, sometimes episodes were broadcast out of production order, but they were usually close. The episode was being filmed on October 6, 1989. A lot of the early Season 7 episodes' graphics weren't quite transitioned over yet ("Low Cost LANs" is a great example). I would say this episode could very well have aired on November 23, 1989 (that is Thanksgiving, though). I'd put it likely in November or December 1989. Definitely late in the year. April 16, 2014 1:27 am
Очевидно, что-то пошло не так и он выключился :) Более того, я уверен что его так и не удалось включить. В конце, после того как Стюарт попросил включить его еще раз, вставили отдельно записанное видео, поэтому не слышно кликов мыши (кнопку трекбола), которые в начале презентации хорошо слышны.
@@MovingThePicture "Obviously, something went wrong and he turned off :) Moreover, I am sure that he was never turned on. At the end, after Stewart asked to turn it on again, they inserted a separately recorded video, so you can’t hear the mouse clicks (trackball button), which are clearly audible at the beginning of the presentation." (Google Translate)
JESUS ! Color laptop for $8000 in 1989 !!! I'm glad those times are over. How much is that in today's $$$ ??? Like $20,000 ? Insanity. I think only Apple was more expensive back then.
Art About $15000. It wasn't insanity, it was brand new technology. A "normal" laptop with a black and white screen was already $5000 or so, then add a few thousand for the color display, since they were brand new and extremely difficult to manufacture.
+Art basically, no normal person could afford one. it's like buying a really good 3D printer today (not just junk ones, but a GOOD one that can make real things) is out of price of the average person, but in 10-20 years they will be as commonplace as a $20 smartphone today.
@DavstrWrexham With twice the RAM, and a proper drive (eMMc storage is the "Puppy Power" cognate to the SSD), your machine is a beast compared to my Linuxed-up Acer Chromebook 14.
Even back then laptops were trying, in vain, to replace desktops. Until we can fit multiple gpus and gpus in a laptop and overclock then and liquid cool them they wont replace.
In the enterprise market, laptops have in fact replaced desktops for quite some time now. The current trend is to have laptops replaced through tablets or mobile phones and you see the same pattern going on.
For the tiny niche of people using multiple GPUs, sure, but for most of the mainstream market, laptops/tablets/ultraportables have undoubtedly replaced desktops. Also, there are more powerful thin gaming laptops now (though they are considerably more expensive than comparable desktop hardware) with GPUs that perform nearly indistinguishably from their desktop counterparts.
A simplification of Moore's law holds that, for a given amount of money, the "computing power" (CPU cycles per second, storage space, or whatever) that can be bought doubles roughly every 18 months.
It was NOT a fun era to live in if you were broke or even average income. Only could afford old tech. Like in 1989 i was still using a C64 8 bit because I could not afford anything more (not because I had no interest in stepping up).
@Drew Or still paying for it on original very high interest rate plans, only making monthly minimums. Edit: This was 1989 and some may have taken a 2nd mortgage out to pay for one so conceivably it is possible they were making payments up until current times!
Most components used in laptops in those days were essentially the same as desktop components, so battery life was short. But when mobil-optimised components were used, like with the pocket PC, you suddenly got 100 hours of use on two AA's. I can't think of any modern pocket computer (smartphone or small tablet) that'll even come close to 100 hours.
Keep in mind your typical bluetooth keyboard today has many orders of magnitude of enhanced raw computational power than the pocket pc of back then. Not sure what the hour count is, but these can last months or even a year of activity.
Multiple GPUs? Liquid cooling? Those are features of poorly designed computers. CPU's aren't overclocked for a reason, they aren't designed to run that hot for a long period.
I was at Laptop 89 won beer pong championship 2 days in a row. I called everyone nerds and smashed all the laptops there because it messed up my spreadsheets. I wasnt impressed don't believe the hype.
Sparky Sparks...NOW thats a POWER name!
John Fairbanks never stood a chance.
20:45 "And all your work is... " *computer dings and shuts off* "... uh, saved."
(sad mac chime intensifies upon closing) Maybe lets put it back together.. lol
I think it broke. You Never saw him use it again after that.
I was thinking the same so funny xD
@@flebnard He's lucky Steve Jobs wasn't at Apple at this time, he would be fired for botching the demo.
My guess is that the computer shut itself off since the case was opened, I know a lot of Apples from the 80s would do the same thing.
@@Kajayacht It simply crashed. Don't know why but the cover has nothing to do with it. I have a Portable and the plastic cover doesn't have to be on for it to work. I don't know of any other Macintosh that shuts itself off because the cover is removed.
I wish people were still like this. 😢
Like what?
Blame Democrats
@@pepperwings Proper and respectful.
@@Jwdude123 typical 2 brain cells Republican blaming others
White country behavior
11:54 I love that bezeless display.
That screen is just plain ugly lol
That thing is badass! I want one! A laptop from 1989 with a color display is damn cool!
It's a small screen to go with your bezel lol
bezel has more area than the screen . It was done deliberately so you can stick standard size postit notes to it.
@@80sCompaqPC Astonishing, in fact
Gary, what a gentleman!
don't be a Gary lol
@@raven4k998 wow Gary died in 94
@@dj2bklyn but if you REALLY know anything about Gary, you know he would have had a different life, had he sold his CP/M operating system to IBM. Instead, IBM purchased "DOS" from Microsoft, and the rest is history. 💁🏻♂️🖥️💰
@@TuNnLGary was engineer first, businessman second. Gates was businessman first, engineer second.
Love it how the Macintosh Portable crashes unrecoverably 😂😂
That's because there's a switch on the back that senses if that cover has been removed. You're not supposed to remove it when the machine is running, and the cover supposed to be in place when powering it on. The machine did what it was supposed to do, "crash" because the back cover wasn't on. If that dude was a tech guy instead of salesman, he would have known that.
I noticed that too...His efforts to recover it by stalling was hilarious!
sparky sparks.. what a name :-)
I love old school technology! I was 9 years old in 1989, when these techniques came out!! 38 now, my how far in the future we've come!
9 years old in 1989, 38 in 2020.. what's your secret?
Bro if you were 9 in 1989 then you were born in 1980. In 2020 that would make you 40 ish not 38.
Hard to believe 🙂🙏
I was also 9 in 89, and would LOVE to be 38.
😂😂😂 maths
This show was on PBS during the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. Those were the days, laptops used to cost $4000 to $8000.
This specific episode is from 1989.
now only elite laptops cost that much, you can get a good computer power lappy or desktop for around 1k. Moores law rules
@@cathaven3801 Not only that, but the 4-8k in 1989 is, with inflation adjustment, equal to 8000 - 16000 today. I don't think one can even find a laptop that costly today even fully spec'd out.
@@oldtwinsna8347 Yeah, I was also going to say that adjusted to inflation... damn, absolutely not everyone's machines.
It aired till 2002.
Imagine going back in time with an iPad Pro and the looks on their faces.
When I had first seen this particular episode in 1989 I liked the idea of having a portable laptop computer, but the prices of those machines were painfully out of my price range. Nearly thirty years later and I still cannot afford the cost of the newest laptops, however the price of a second hand laptop is almost within my budget.
So back then the price of a laptop was like a down payment on a house lol
Back then it might have actually been less, depending on where you were buying.
and goes obsolete when windows 95 shows up 6 years later.
I love the way Maria says her name.
3 hours battery life, that’s better than my first laptop in 2004
12:25 I didn't realise those old colour LCDs looked that bad when brand new!
Passive matrix looks terrible. Especially with repeating patterns.
This shows how far we have come with technology. Pretty awesome stuff.
Ah.. the lack of standardization in that decade was incredible... good times!
Sorry if I'm not understanding what you're referring to, but I remember before smartphones when every phone had a different charger. That was such a pain in the butt.
@@weaponofmassconstruction1940 That's an approximation of the "no standards" problem of computing in 1989. There were issues of secondary storage (disks or something like it) and peripheral connection being unique to each manufacturer. (The PC Card/Memory Card Industry Association didn't yet exist.)
@@floydjohnson7888 PCMCIA card standard was all the rage with the fax/modem a few years later. Pop the fax.modem card, connect to POTS/ISDN and log onto bulletin board like ExecPC which then connected to early Internet.
Cross-platform compatibility is definitely something my dad wanted to see more of at that time, it took years to get there though.
Technology was evolving rapidly then. Display technology was a good example.
The Macintosh presentation was funny as he essentially showed it's issue. You can take out the battery but there was clearly no guarantee it would boot back up as he had to reset it in the end.
Last report from Apple was that they are still working on this issue.
@@oldtwinsna8347 Wrong. My Mac laptops from 2013 are still working perfectly fine.
Modular laptops, now with Framework we’ve gone back to full circle!
This was like 7 years before my first laptop. By the way, Sparky Sparks? Perfect nerd name. This guy must have been teased to near death at school.
26:56 A father and son who had lost contact for 29 years found each other again via CompuServe. That is a mark of how difficult it was for people to find each other in the world before Facebook became widespread.
People seemed more polite and friendly back then.😂
i'd watch this all the time when i was 5. strange how i never became a tech kid.
small car, and a small computer... classic!
Those machines costing thousands in the late 80s can now be picked up on eBay for a couple hundred bucks. I dreamed of owning one back then.
Our next musical act, ladies and gentlemen: Sparky Sparks and the Microchips!
That was even funnier than "The Iconettes" as an information-services sales exec first referred to Win95 icons
Ahh the good old days when one measure of a laptop's portability was how long it took for the weight to put your legs to sleep.
Its incredible that even an iot chip have more compute power or memory that those laptops
My fridge has more computing power...
Unless your white appliance is rocking a new production Z80. Then your 286 sewing machine still gets bragging rights...
Sparky... Sparks?.. i was expecting a cute little doggo to wuff back at Gary in response.
100 hours of battery runtime for a single pair of AA batteries?
That’s impressive even by 30 years later standards! 🤯
Not really, considering there is no backlight involved. Your typical wireless keyboard today has more processing power than that entire palmtop does and can run for hundreds of hours.
@@oldtwinsna8347 3 hours of charging gets you 3 hours of use my have the times have a changed
@@oldtwinsna8347 100 hours is impressive, backlight or not... Also, it's pretty easy to instantly get extra 100 hours with another set of batteries.
If people really wanted longer battery life they would not get mobile devices you can comfortably use without having to have charger and wall socket on hand. With monochrome backlight-less TN panel which refreshes only what actually changed and very low clock you could have eg. smartphone which would work for days. Software could be written optimally leading to similar actual experience... but nothing beats colorful flashing ads on your smartphone hence we have micro-computers with performance of not so old desktop computers
Best of all it only weighs 94 lbs!! This 300 watt baby costs only $37,000 and stores its memory on 128 kilobyte, 6 pound, $750 memory cards. You can throw them and kill an assailant!
Wow! A computer that fits in your lap! What will they think of next?
okay starting to watch now, good so far!
3:30 It's not a laptop dock - it's a nest!
Whoever designed that Dynabook wasn't fucking around, expandability and different use modes.
lol sparky sparks
11:55 check out that screen-to-bezel ratio
At least you had proper full size knobs to control brightness and not nonsense FN function key like in todays laptops
CGA monitors. Ahh what enjoyable memories those spark. I miss those times and that joy in computing. Its utterly tasteless now
They always looked uncomfortable when trying to advertise their stuff.
Yes, now they don't....... because they use animations.
Poor Sparky Sparks, surely he got bullied to oblivion in school. What were his parents thinking?
Sparky Sparks. The world's greatest name!
At this time in history especially in 1989 they already had touch tablets pen point based and. small. desktop organizers. like palm pilots and labtop were emerging but i would doubt that thier. battery life. in 1989 was three hour probalble about 10 minutes . but at. how. along way computers have comes now labtops are gaming computers and Macbook Pro are now gaming. computers with 8 gb of. video memory and this is amazing how far we came.. I was born around 1990. Go Computer Chronicles RIP Gary Kiddal.
Wow the touchscreen one!!! In the late eighties!
A touchscreen with handwriting recognition capability. Computers were more advanced in 1989 than I've thought.
@@megabojan1993 Wonder what type of AI technology was used in handwriting recognition back them
@@gopalm.5521 Probably a very basic one. I remember using the handwriting recognition on a PC back in 2003/4 and it wasn't very good.
Must've been intimidating having to show off your computer next to an IBM guy back then.
15:45 this was the same computer bt used to produce his first album 'ima' in the mid 90s
Laptop 89 , lets go
19:39 How nice, b.s. PowerPoint-style 'multimedia presentations' that should never have existed.
It’s over 8,000 bucks, 30 pounds and you have to keep it plugged in to use it 🤦🏽♀️ You got an extremely expensive desktop 😆
A battery pack the size of a modern ultrabook for 4 hour of battery life.
02:48 I reckon that's a Toshiba T3100. Surprised they weren't showing off the new T3200/T5200 models at this show.
a mac that's all modular and accessible.
Could you imagine spending thousands of dollars for this technology all for it to change so rapidly in a span of five years
These were all expense account purchases. B2B sales stuff. Individuals weren’t buying this stuff. 9k then is like 30k now and the only thing they did was work stuff.
I wanna go back in time with my iPad and blow their freakin minds!
RollOnToVictory if someone comes 30 years from now and you showed them your iPad they would laugh they a** off:))
Well, 5 years ago you didn't have the Ipad Pro.. .So I guess you'd be blown away reading this back in time?
That or they'd be surprised were not further along. If you compare the progress made between 1989 and 1999 and then 2009 to 2019 you can see Moore's Law has almost ground to a halt.
I think they would be more mindblown by the fact you travelled in time than your puny iPad. The iPad was conceptualised in the 60’s, and wouldn’t surprise these guys one tiny bit.
20:33 :D SLAM! haha
Yikes. He slammed that PC like it is a worthless piece of junk :)
LoL! This laptops cost in upwards of $8K. And I thought I over spent a few weeks ago when I built a ryzen 5 1500x for less than $500.
It woudl be twice that in current money.
Those prices in the early days of computers were ridiculous. $8500, $7000, for no color, no memory, no hard drive space, really heavy form and no internet. So glad computers have rapidly evolved. No wonder my dad bought us a second hand C64/128 and we kept that baby for years...
Holy (expletive)! IIRC, the street price of a C64 in 1984 was about $200-250 (this was in a notoriously economically-depressed bit of Rust Belt called Northwest Indiana)
And holy crap, this comment is ten years old! It's crazy what tech we have right in our pockets now!
I too am from South Bend
sparky sparks? why would you do that to a kid LOL
Imagine the battery runtime on a 286 equivalent these days, with LCD screen, 1MB RAM and 40MB storage! Literally DAYS!
No need to imagine. Even the lowest end smartphone from 5 years ago has more processing power than a Cray 1 supercomputer and can do just that.
I wish the modern mac laptops were modular. They make it very hard to simply replace a battery.
:) simple. Don't buy apple.
Sparky has been banned from the fireworks tent
Haha Eppley almoust sounds like Äpple (which is Apple in swedish :P )
I wonder how long this laptop batterys would last with the battery technology we have now
like the mac keyboard nice smooth and soft.
why did they use vertigo background?
@nthnbt8 It is Season 7, Episode 4 so counting back from episodes with known air dates in March 1990 (718 on March 1, 720 on March 15) you would get Thursday, November 23, 1989, assuming a broadcast every week. Occasionally, there would be multiple broadcasts in a week, and some weeks of course had no CC episode. The season usually started in late September, so this episode could have been as early as mid October. On the other hand, sometimes episodes were broadcast out of production order, but they were usually close.
The episode was being filmed on October 6, 1989. A lot of the early Season 7 episodes' graphics weren't quite transitioned over yet ("Low Cost LANs" is a great example). I would say this episode could very well have aired on November 23, 1989 (that is Thanksgiving, though). I'd put it likely in November or December 1989. Definitely late in the year.
April 16, 2014 1:27 am
The Wild West of computers.
Sparky Sparks Crazy name...Krazy guy!!
No one ever mentions how rich people were back then.
13:00 I'm Maria Gabbbb..... riel.
Ha! I thought I was the only one getting bugged by it!
Yeah, that is so bizarre, she always does it.
What happened to the Mac did it break during the presentation?
Очевидно, что-то пошло не так и он выключился :) Более того, я уверен что его так и не удалось включить. В конце, после того как Стюарт попросил включить его еще раз, вставили отдельно записанное видео, поэтому не слышно кликов мыши (кнопку трекбола), которые в начале презентации хорошо слышны.
Egis
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@@MovingThePicture "Obviously, something went wrong and he turned off :) Moreover, I am sure that he was never turned on. At the end, after Stewart asked to turn it on again, they inserted a separately recorded video, so you can’t hear the mouse clicks (trackball button), which are clearly audible at the beginning of the presentation." (Google Translate)
What the heck was a 'typewriter-style keyboard'!?
3:30 so this was how first smart cellphone... it even has screen size comparable to todays smartphones!
JESUS ! Color laptop for $8000 in 1989 !!! I'm glad those times are over. How much is that in today's $$$ ??? Like $20,000 ? Insanity. I think only Apple was more expensive back then.
Art About $15000. It wasn't insanity, it was brand new technology. A "normal" laptop with a black and white screen was already $5000 or so, then add a few thousand for the color display, since they were brand new and extremely difficult to manufacture.
+Art basically, no normal person could afford one. it's like buying a really good 3D printer today (not just junk ones, but a GOOD one that can make real things) is out of price of the average person, but in 10-20 years they will be as commonplace as a $20 smartphone today.
you could almost buy a house back then with that amount.
I wonder what they would have made of my modern laptop with it's quad core cpu, GPU, 8 gig of ram, 15 inch HD display and SSD.
@DavstrWrexham With twice the RAM, and a proper drive (eMMc storage is the "Puppy Power" cognate to the SSD), your machine is a beast compared to my Linuxed-up Acer Chromebook 14.
Sparky Sparks???? Look kid, we are not playing around here, this is a serious computer show.
Nice MGB
Even back then laptops were trying, in vain, to replace desktops. Until we can fit multiple gpus and gpus in a laptop and overclock then and liquid cool them they wont replace.
In the enterprise market, laptops have in fact replaced desktops for quite some time now. The current trend is to have laptops replaced through tablets or mobile phones and you see the same pattern going on.
For the tiny niche of people using multiple GPUs, sure, but for most of the mainstream market, laptops/tablets/ultraportables have undoubtedly replaced desktops. Also, there are more powerful thin gaming laptops now (though they are considerably more expensive than comparable desktop hardware) with GPUs that perform nearly indistinguishably from their desktop counterparts.
"In the future, the rest of it will be as small as the screen".
Did this air on November 23, 1989?
5/16/1989 according to Archive.org
This dude's name is Sparky Sparks?
That reminds me of a friend growing up named Chris P. Bacon.
Yes that’s his name in real life, he’s dead now
He should have been an electrician!
$8,500 in adjusted for 2013 inflation would be about $15,968 in our current dollar. damn
3 Hours of charging gives you 3 hours of use 😅
Is it just me, or were the computers back than massively expensive? Considering the inflation and all that...
They were very expensive around $8,000 in today’s money and didn’t do much TBH
A simplification of Moore's law holds that, for a given amount of money, the "computing power" (CPU cycles per second, storage space, or whatever) that can be bought doubles roughly every 18 months.
It was NOT a fun era to live in if you were broke or even average income. Only could afford old tech. Like in 1989 i was still using a C64 8 bit because I could not afford anything more (not because I had no interest in stepping up).
Sweet MG Midget
Man 8k for a laptop back then would be like 12k now.
@Drew Or still paying for it on original very high interest rate plans, only making monthly minimums. Edit: This was 1989 and some may have taken a 2nd mortgage out to pay for one so conceivably it is possible they were making payments up until current times!
No worse than that. 34 years. Would be closer to 19.
Sparky Sparks. What a name lol
Took all the spotlight from the other guy whose name I literally just seen, and forgot, because sparky.
05:25 - Please tell me Sparky Sparks is his REAL name :D
It was his real name
$6000 in 1989 =
$12,445.55 in 2020
Take my money
what's the obsession with laptops and working in airports?
The MAC was clearly the best one
That poor Mac presenter single handedly put Apple out of business.
Watching this on a Core i5 laptop. Right beside it is an iPod touch
6 years later iPod touches are obsolete . Watching this on an iPhone pro 12 max which is probably more powerful than your I 5 computer
Wow this was a bit prescient.... 1:50
woah woah woah hangon an 80286 CPU and a 40 MB HDD in a giant brick and the battery can still hold 3 hours of charge?! WOW!!!
Most components used in laptops in those days were essentially the same as desktop components, so battery life was short. But when mobil-optimised components were used, like with the pocket PC, you suddenly got 100 hours of use on two AA's. I can't think of any modern pocket computer (smartphone or small tablet) that'll even come close to 100 hours.
Good point :-)
Keep in mind your typical bluetooth keyboard today has many orders of magnitude of enhanced raw computational power than the pocket pc of back then. Not sure what the hour count is, but these can last months or even a year of activity.
Plasma is energy-consuming, isn't it? Weird choice for a laptop.
Multiple GPUs? Liquid cooling? Those are features of poorly designed computers. CPU's aren't overclocked for a reason, they aren't designed to run that hot for a long period.
11:05 $6000 for that piece of shit
I was at Laptop 89 won beer pong championship 2 days in a row. I called everyone nerds and smashed all the laptops there because it messed up my spreadsheets. I wasnt impressed don't believe the hype.
Atari… Portfolio…?
Middle finger alert at 7:04