> It’s funny how Apple came back from the worst the Mac has ever been to the best in a span of few years. The terrible state of the Mac over the last nine year

> It’s funny how Apple came back from the worst the Mac has ever been to the best in a span of few years. The terrible state of the Mac over the last nine years hardly compares to the dismal state that Apple was in during the 90s. The product line was a mess and they had multiple machines that had common failures (PowerBook 5300c[0] comes to mind as my first laptop). It was so bad that PowerComputing was making better Macs (clones) than Apple. They've made two incredible comebacks. [0] > Two early production PowerBook 5300s caught fire, one at an Apple employee's house and another at the factory; it turned out that the Sony-manufactured lithium ion batteries had overheated while recharging. Apple recalled the 5300s sold (around a hundred machines) and replaced the batteries on these and all subsequent 5300s with nickel metal hydride batteries that provided only about 70% the endurance. At the time, the media viewed the problems with the PowerBook 5300 series as yet another example of Apple's decline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_5300#Batteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_5300#Batteries