Nearly a decade ago, on December 10, 1998, I posted the Road Warrior column republished below, which provides an interesting sanpshot of the state of Apple laptops ten years back. Aside from the particularities of the hardware, much of my commentary still holds up I think, especially on the matter of timing one's system upgrades. I'm also amused at how accurately I predicted the then-forthcoming Lombard and one more G3 Series PowerBook speed bump (Pismo) after that.

Incidentally, I eventually did buy a 233 MHz G3 Series "PDQ" PowerBook a couple of months after this column went up. It was a great machine and in fact was recently put back into service by my daughter after her ThinkPad PC died.

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