It all started with the Titanium PowerBook G4. When you resume the slide show, silver metallic laptops will alternate with cheaper plastic models for a little while, but during the final decade of slides, they’ll all settle on this one basic design. It’s thin (at least for the time) and boxy and sheathed in silvery metal instead of plastic. You might want to pause the slides for a moment, because the computer on the screen is undeniably a modern Apple laptop. The G3 iBook appears briefly to provide some needed color.Īnd then, 12 years into Apple’s portable Mac journey, you see it.
It starts with the Macintosh Portable and ends with two M1 MacBooks.įor a while, the slides are of chunky plastic laptops in light gray, dark gray, and black. Imagine a slideshow of images of every portable Mac Apple has made, displayed in chronological order.
20 Macs for 2020: #5 – Titanium PowerBook G4