Random trivia, this is the last model where the Apple logo on the back of the screen is oriented to be right side up for the user when they close the display. Their next laptop was the G4 titanium, which rotated the logo to be right side up when looking at the back of the screen while it's open.
Greatest “Classic” Mac Laptop: Powerbook G3 Pismo (2021)
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#13Random trivia, this is the last model where the Apple logo on the back of the screen is oriented to be right side up for the user when they close the display. Their next laptop was the G4 titanium, which rotated the logo to be right side up when looking at the back of the screen while it's open.
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#15Random trivia, this is the last model where the Apple logo on the back of the screen is oriented to be right side up for the user when they close the display. Their next laptop was the G4 titanium, which rotated the logo to be right side up when looking at the back of the screen while it's open.
The fact that they made it glow when open is what made the decision just so weird. The only way it would glow was when it was open. So the fact that they made it not glow when they did flip it was just all sorts of whathehuh? kind of logic.
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#16Running OS 9 on modern storage (SSD), it's surprising how responsive it is for most tasks with a single core sub-gigahertz CPU and RAM capacity below the on-disk size of many apps these days. Much of any impression of slowness in day-to-day use when it was current was almost certainly a result of its mechanical HDD.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that they made it glow when open is what made the decision just so weird. The only way it would glow was when it was open. So the fact that they made it not glow when they did flip it was just all sorts of whathehuh? kind of logic.
check where the wifi antenna was on the G4, if ifixit still has that? or maybe just panel manufacturer specs changed?
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#18Looks very modern, not really like a “classic” old-style PhpBB with tons of annoying icons and signatures.
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#20Not really related but I really like the PhpBB skin Looks very modern, not really like a “classic” old-style PhpBB with tons of annoying icons and signatures.