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Re:'Be' is nice. End of story by mwcampbell on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @07:10AM (#33608171)
> but he also stewarded many great projects: [...] the Macintosh Portable

My understanding was that the Macintosh Portable was an awful product, because it was just too big and the screen wasn't backlit. I never saw one myself, though.

Re:'Be' is nice. End of story by throwaway82388 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @07:43AM (#33608434)
I got to use one, and my impression was that it an expensive, impractical, heavy, underpowered machine with a low contrast lcd that made the cursor difficult to see when it was in motion. It was also cool, futuristic, like nothing I’d seen before. It was a novelty, people crowded around it.

But you’d have been better off lugging around an SE/30.