688 In this week's The Road Warrior on MacOpinion. Charles Moore writes:

"This month the PowerBook G3 Series, aka WallStreet, PDQ, and MainStreet, marks its 7th birthday -- an eternity in computer terms -- but there are many thousands of WallStreet owners, yours truly among them, still getting great service from these old but formidable machines.

"The WallStreet’s introduction at the World Widw Developer’s Conference on May 8, 1998, marked a watershed in the development of the Apple laptop. While it wasn’t the first G3 powered PowerBook. the previous PowerBook G3 250 (Kanga) was a bit of a cobble job -- essentially a G3 motherboard with a 50 MHz system bus grafted into a PowerBook 3400.

"The WallStreet, by contrast, was a completely clean slate design, a clear break with the original PowerBook design motif with its swoopy, contoured styling, big monitor screens, wonderful scissors-action keyboards, expansive palm rests, and no standard floppy drive. The quantum leap that the WallStreet represented is highlighted in comparing my wife’s old PowerBook 1400, which was released some 20 months before the WallStreet, to my own 233 MHz PDQ. The 1400 is very much old school, while the WallStreet can still hold its own as a modern laptop. Well, almost, anyway."

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http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/05/05/10/index.html

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