Apple Powerbook Greatest Gadget

No disrespect to Apple for my belated post, I should have done so shortly after Mobile PC magazine announced the Powerbook as the top gadget of all time. This is a just reward for a company that has learned from and understood the value of industrial design from the beginning. It also goes to show the lessons they have learned along the way too. Even the Apple snow white industrial design language which had been very successful throughout the 80's, developed by frogdesign, could not save their barely luggable only moderately successful Macintosh Portable. This was a product that appeared only to apply an industrial design language cosmetically to the surface. From the more appropriate grey color, to the integrated palm rest and trackball, the Powerbook line better integrated its industrial design language into the 'DNA' of the product and as a result, everybody followed, manufacturers and customers alike. I took me a little time though, as much as I loved the design. I did not go mobile until the arrival of the Duo and Duo Dock. It was a little smaller notebook (but a bit more fragile), and the math co-processor (I think that was what it was) enabled me to also go mobile with my 3D modeling too!