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Look, I only got 9. OK?
And I want to complain about the one I got wrong.
I guessed that the "greatest gadget" as decided by some american magazine might be the iPod, despite it's only real innovations were a half decent user interface and the use of a hard drive rather than flash chips...
I didn't think that they could possibly have selected the PB100. I mean really, the PB140 and PB170 were introduced on the very same day, were real Apple products, and much, much better than the slightly pathetic 100. (The PowerBook 100 was a Sony re-design and manufacture job on the original hefty Mac Portable.) The 170 was a fine machine and used a crisp active matrix (tft) LCD screen (like the Portable) unlike the sad 100 which had a comparatively sludgy and smeary passive matrix screen. The 140 and 170 also used NiMH high capacity batteries, unlike the 100 which had a lead/acid gel battery - a design carryover from the portable.
Unquestionably the 170 was the best machine introduced that day, and more like today's laptops than the 100. (Even if the 100 did lack a built-in floppy, that shouln't make it any reasonable person's greatest gadget ever...)
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Bernie66
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