Long before Apple started producing iPhones and its latest generation MacBooks, the company developed a portable range of computers aptly named the Macintosh Portable. These were available for ...

On September 20, 1989, Apple product chief Jean-Louis Gassée stood on a stage in Universal City, California, and unveiled a new computer, the Macintosh Portable. It was Apple’s first battery-powered ...

A clip from a local news program discussing the then-unreleased Macintosh Portable has been unearthed and uploaded to YouTube, with the news item from 29 years ago serving as a reminder that Apple ...

As one of the founders of Apple Computer Inc., Steve Jobs became synonymous with the brand. But his relationship with the company wasn't always so hallowed and harmonious. After internal disputes with ...

This video shows an old Macintosh Portable seemingly running OS X. But how did it happen, and was it worth the effort? It’s worth pointing out, first off, that this is real. But while it might look ...

If you’re a left-handed Apple fan this prototype Mac Portable is the perfect novelty. The test machine’s trackball is placed to the left of the keyboard, but was ...

Ah, the venerable old Macintosh Portable. First introduced in 1989, the $6,500 wasn’t just a milestone in that it was the first battery-powered portable Mac, but it was also the first laptop ever used ...

August 28, 1991: Astronauts send the first email from space using a Macintosh Portable and AppleLink software. Sent by the crew of the Atlantis space shuttle, the message reads, “Hello Earth!

The Macintosh Portable was possibly one of the coolest computing devices to be seen with back at the end of the 1980s, providing as it did a Mac in a slightly nicer version of the hefty luggable ...