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Reminds me of when they stopped calling the powerpc Macbooks 'Laptops' and started calling them 'portables' everywhere. To avoid customers placing the hot gridd
by millzlane 10y ago
Reminds me of when they stopped calling the powerpc Macbooks 'Laptops' and started calling them 'portables' everywhere. To avoid customers placing the hot griddles into their laps.
- andrewpi 10y agoApple's very first "laptop" was called the Macintosh Portable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable
- canuckintime 10y agoThe change was from 'laptops' to 'notebooks' iirc. And those griddles were hot[1] [1]http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/09/09/blotchy_burns_o.html http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/09/09/blotchy...
- millzlane 10y agoYou're right. I stand corrected. Funny how 10 years seems like a long time.