Talk:Macintosh Portable

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The criticism section needs to be rewritten -- it's half how to fix a bad battery pack, half problems with the design, and all impossible to comprehend without reading it multiple times 71.195.78.202 (talk) 22:46, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

was the screen really active matrix? I wrote it was passive because that was my recollection, but it was backed up by mention on one of the sites that I used to get some of the basic data from - trouble is, I forget which it was. The other thing is that the mouse cursor and fast graphics definitely DID suffer from "submarining", I remember seeing that first hand, so if it was active, it wasn't very good. In fact Apple introduced a special cursor trick which left short trails designed to help the user not lose sight it on this machine. Graham 03:54, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)


 * I'm almost positive the early PowerBooks (and hence logically the Portable) had passive-matrix screens; can't remember when Apple made the switch though. - Hephaestos 04:02, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

There were third-party portable macs very early on. They used surplus SE logic boards. Who made them? JesseVincent
 * Outbound Computers theducks
 * there was also the Colby, which was based on the Plus. Part of the reason Apple took so long to come out with a portable was they were waiting for display technology to be good enough. The display quality is obviously more important on a Mac than on a DOS laptop. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 15:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

In Response: The screen on the Portable was in fact an active matrix screen. In regards to the Powerbook, when Apple released the 100, 140, and 170 in October of 91, the 100 and 140s had passive matrix screen, while the 170 (the high class Powerbook, if you will) had the active matrix screen. (Source: Apple-History.com) -- Joey B.

Added to history of the backlit model. Balance2214 19:51, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Something that could be added: an interesting interview with Apple VP Eric Harslem in MacWorld 9/1992 which touches on the problems/shortcomings of the Portable: pg 198, https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_9209_September_1992 Pip11 (talk) 19:59, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Battery life
All this talk of battery life. What was it originally?? What was the battery capacity?63.155.153.171 (talk) 08:49, 20 November 2017 (UTC)