Comments on: Apple Already Had a Netbook

By: Zachariah Oines

Zachariah Oines — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:20:27 +0000

eee pc Gute Tests zum Bereich findet ihr auf http://www.netbook-community.de. Hab dort sogar gute Tests rund um das Asus Netbook gefunden genau dieses ist im Bereich ipad test ja ein richtiger Newcomer. Schaut es euch mal an die Community hat das iPad überzeugt. grüße an alle

By: Andrew Peterson

Andrew Peterson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:24:57 +0000

Whether the design credit on the eMate goes to Ive or Meyerhoffer, one thing that made it notable was how attractive the device was. Apple was in its downward-spiral days back then and their industrial design was notable for its timidity. The eMate came as a wonderful surprise. It was illustrative of something Jobs said some time later, along the lines of “NOT to be bold was the biggest risk.” I never owned one – I couldn’t afford it. But I remember taking one look at it and thinking that was EXACTLY the kind of design panache Apple needed.

By: Brando

Brando — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:23:30 +0000

20 – 30 hours of battery life! Compared to today netbooks is great.
I would like to have a 5-7″ pocketable netbook with that battery life.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:04:21 +0000

i really dont see what the relevenace of the emate 300 is to apple of today and netbooks yes it was a small machine but that was 12 years ago the newton and emate are dead and buried
you might as wel argue that the ibook preempted the netbooks by 5 years since its a full featured sub notebook

By: Nicola D'Agostino

Nicola D'Agostino — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:31:46 +0000

If I may I’d like to point out that Ive didn’t design the eMate 300: Thomas Meyerhoffer (http://www.meyerhoffer.com/) did.

nda

By: Mark Crummett

Mark Crummett — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:28:33 +0000

I had an eMate for a while, too. It was great- instant-on, great battery life, interesting interface. I got rid of mine after I inadvertently deleted a large file I was working on. Kinda annoyed me.

By: Shock Me

Shock Me — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:02:23 +0000

Yeah. I had an evaluation eMate for about a semester back in College. That thing had AMAZING battery life. Plus, because of the curves I could type comfortably in bed without danger of over heating.

By: thomasfitzgerald

thomasfitzgerald — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:00:18 +0000

I don’t think the battery life was just because of the screen. Sure thats a significant factor – but think of it this way too – it was using a low power Arm processor, similar to what’s in the iPhone today, but the battery was the size of mars bar – so when you think about it – you’d probably get maybe 10 hours or so out of a 7″ colour screen with todays technology and a low power processor like that with that kind of battery. With oled anyway.

Then again, I’m not an engineer so I may be wrong.

By: Steve W

Steve W — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:29:18 +0000

“And, does that say 20 to 30 hours of use?!?! Where is that today!”

@Cash

It’s gone to the same graveyard where all the other monochrome displays have gone. The majority of the market prefers color over battery life.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:28:32 +0000

Apple also had 7 models of the PowerBook Duos’

Dimensions: 1.4″ H x 10.9″ W x 8.5″ D

Apple… always way ahead of the curve…