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Ever heard of a Powerbook 100?

It wasn’t the first laptop, but it was very influential in modern laptop design (keyboard at the back, pointing device at the front).

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I agree with this, but the loss of connection is likely to be temporary, not permanent. And during that time iPad has greater functionality – document access, gaming etc.

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sony vaio has nothing to do with MBP

Well Apple recruited a number of Vaio engineers to work on the first Intel hardware.

Apple considered giving Sony OS X:

“How long would it take you to get this running on a (Sony) Vaio?” JK replies, “Not long” and Bertrand says, “Two weeks? Three?”
JK said more like two hours. Three hours, tops.
The next morning, Steve Jobs is on a plane to Japan to meet with the President of Sony.

Apple compared the first Powerbook G4 and the first MacBook Air to Vaio in presentations.

And an Apple engineer (Jordan Hubbard) wrote (jokingly) in an interesting OS X presentation:

LWMLAF: 70% (bye bye Vaio!)

So I’d say in 2000s there is a very good case that Apple paid a lot of attention to what Sony was doing. Which makes sense as they were the only two PC OEMs really interested in going after the high end of the market.

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Imagine what the reaction of Steve Jobs would be if someone presented him a PC called “Rove” with a 20-inch touchscreen, a four-hour battery, and a spring-loaded kickstand.

It doesn’t even look good on paper.

about 5 hours ago on HP Envy Rove 20 is the company's stab at a giant all-in-one Windows 8 tablet

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Facetime is a good candidate I think.

I don’t think they are going to show people sorting through their inbox… “Email everyday” doesn’t quite have the same emotive appeal.

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