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technologizer.com - 9/21/2009

Inside the Macintosh Portable | Technologizer

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Inside the Mac Portable A Misunderstood Machine On September 20th, 1989, Apple released the Macintosh Portable, the first true mobile Mac and a much-maligned machine . It didn’t sell well and is very rare today–not due to any particular design failure, but because the original price was a ...

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