| ▲ | Cockbrand 7 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
The clamshell iBook had one very distinctive disadvantage: when the laptop world had finally arrived at a default display resolution of at least 1024x768, the iBook had an 800x600 display. This forced web designers (in a time before widely supported CSS or even responsive design) to design for the smaller viewport of the iBook instead of being able to take advantage of the higher-res displays of the rest of the world. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | qingcharles 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Peter Gabriel gave me his in ~2000 because I needed a crappy Mac to test our music streaming and downloading on. I liked the design, but was very underwhelmed by the hardware and software. In that way, it was good for testing. I remember it quickly ended up in a closet with some big elastic bands pushing something onto the trackpad button, since there was an online game at the time called "Hold The Button" with a leaderboard and we wanted to be #1. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | schappim 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Ha! That 800x600 screen was the first thing I remembered about it, that the composite (or s-video) out… | |||||||||||||||||
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