The Computer Chronicles - New Laptops (1989)

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  • @TheHabitman
    @TheHabitman 10 лет назад +61

    Sparky Sparks...NOW thats a POWER name!
    John Fairbanks never stood a chance.

  • @andrewlittleboy8532
    @andrewlittleboy8532 4 года назад +33

    I wish people were still like this. 😢

    • @pepperwings
      @pepperwings 2 года назад +3

      Like what?

    • @Jwdude123
      @Jwdude123 2 года назад +9

      Blame Democrats

    • @AnthonyPompa
      @AnthonyPompa 2 года назад +7

      @@pepperwings Proper and respectful.

    • @producedby3am344
      @producedby3am344 2 года назад

      @@Jwdude123 typical 2 brain cells Republican blaming others

    • @macburger7736
      @macburger7736 Год назад

      White country behavior

  • @Kajayacht
    @Kajayacht 7 лет назад +71

    20:45 "And all your work is... " *computer dings and shuts off* "... uh, saved."

    • @rartolak
      @rartolak 4 года назад +10

      (sad mac chime intensifies upon closing) Maybe lets put it back together.. lol

    • @DerMuri
      @DerMuri 3 года назад +7

      I think it broke. You Never saw him use it again after that.

    • @soviet9922
      @soviet9922 3 года назад

      I was thinking the same so funny xD

    • @Kajayacht
      @Kajayacht 3 года назад +4

      @@rartolak He's lucky Steve Jobs wasn't at Apple at this time, he would be fired for botching the demo.
      My guess is that the computer shut itself off since the case was opened, I know a lot of Apples from the 80s would do the same thing.

    • @McVaio
      @McVaio 2 года назад +1

      @@Kajayacht It simply crashed. Don't know why but the cover has nothing to do with it. I have a Portable and the plastic cover doesn't have to be on for it to work. I don't know of any other Macintosh that shuts itself off because the cover is removed.

  • @jillmarieyoung5285
    @jillmarieyoung5285 4 года назад +22

    I love old school technology! I was 9 years old in 1989, when these techniques came out!! 38 now, my how far in the future we've come!

    • @ryanm7263
      @ryanm7263 4 года назад +4

      9 years old in 1989, 38 in 2020.. what's your secret?

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 4 года назад

      Bro if you were 9 in 1989 then you were born in 1980. In 2020 that would make you 40 ish not 38.

    • @Mike_White1988
      @Mike_White1988 2 года назад

      Hard to believe 🙂🙏

    • @hepphepps8356
      @hepphepps8356 Год назад +2

      I was also 9 in 89, and would LOVE to be 38.

    • @AcornElectron
      @AcornElectron Год назад

      😂😂😂 maths

  • @randywatson8347
    @randywatson8347 10 лет назад +24

    sparky sparks.. what a name :-)

  • @edwinbasto3456
    @edwinbasto3456 6 лет назад +38

    Gary, what a gentleman!

    • @raven4k998
      @raven4k998 2 года назад +1

      don't be a Gary lol

    • @dj2bklyn
      @dj2bklyn 2 года назад +1

      @@raven4k998 wow Gary died in 94

    • @TuNnL
      @TuNnL 2 года назад +1

      @@dj2bklyn but if you REALLY know anything about Gary, you know he would have had a different life, had he sold his CP/M operating system to IBM. Instead, IBM purchased "DOS" from Microsoft, and the rest is history. 💁🏻‍♂️🖥️💰

    • @JanuszKrysztofiak
      @JanuszKrysztofiak 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@TuNnLGary was engineer first, businessman second. Gates was businessman first, engineer second.

  • @okaro6595
    @okaro6595 5 лет назад +28

    11:54 I love that bezeless display.

    • @megabojan1993
      @megabojan1993 5 лет назад +1

      That screen is just plain ugly lol

    • @80sCompaqPC
      @80sCompaqPC 5 лет назад +1

      That thing is badass! I want one! A laptop from 1989 with a color display is damn cool!

    • @lacitysun
      @lacitysun 4 года назад +5

      It's a small screen to go with your bezel lol

    • @paulmichaelfreedman8334
      @paulmichaelfreedman8334 4 года назад +2

      bezel has more area than the screen . It was done deliberately so you can stick standard size postit notes to it.

    • @floydjohnson7888
      @floydjohnson7888 3 года назад

      @@80sCompaqPC Astonishing, in fact

  • @CharlesEBright
    @CharlesEBright 6 лет назад +8

    This shows how far we have come with technology. Pretty awesome stuff.

  • @Ace1000ks19751982
    @Ace1000ks19751982 5 лет назад +20

    This show was on PBS during the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. Those were the days, laptops used to cost $4000 to $8000.

    • @clarknapper3933
      @clarknapper3933 5 лет назад +2

      This specific episode is from 1989.

    • @cathaven3801
      @cathaven3801 4 года назад +3

      now only elite laptops cost that much, you can get a good computer power lappy or desktop for around 1k. Moores law rules

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 4 года назад +4

      @@cathaven3801 Not only that, but the 4-8k in 1989 is, with inflation adjustment, equal to 8000 - 16000 today. I don't think one can even find a laptop that costly today even fully spec'd out.

    • @RuruFIN
      @RuruFIN 3 года назад

      @@oldtwinsna8347 Yeah, I was also going to say that adjusted to inflation... damn, absolutely not everyone's machines.

    • @McVaio
      @McVaio 2 года назад +2

      It aired till 2002.

  • @FPSLabs
    @FPSLabs Год назад +4

    People seemed more polite and friendly back then.😂

  • @LionheartNh
    @LionheartNh Год назад +3

    I love the way Maria says her name.

  • @cbilljones
    @cbilljones 4 года назад +25

    So back then the price of a laptop was like a down payment on a house lol

    • @s.t.phoenix
      @s.t.phoenix 2 года назад

      Back then it might have actually been less, depending on where you were buying.

    • @mr6johnclark
      @mr6johnclark 2 года назад +1

      and goes obsolete when windows 95 shows up 6 years later.

  • @cubematrixstudio7605
    @cubematrixstudio7605 5 лет назад +20

    Ah.. the lack of standardization in that decade was incredible... good times!

    • @weaponofmassconstruction1940
      @weaponofmassconstruction1940 4 года назад +1

      Sorry if I'm not understanding what you're referring to, but I remember before smartphones when every phone had a different charger. That was such a pain in the butt.

    • @floydjohnson7888
      @floydjohnson7888 3 года назад

      @@weaponofmassconstruction1940 That's an approximation of the "no standards" problem of computing in 1989. There were issues of secondary storage (disks or something like it) and peripheral connection being unique to each manufacturer. (The PC Card/Memory Card Industry Association didn't yet exist.)

    • @danstar455
      @danstar455 2 года назад +2

      @@floydjohnson7888 PCMCIA card standard was all the rage with the fax/modem a few years later. Pop the fax.modem card, connect to POTS/ISDN and log onto bulletin board like ExecPC which then connected to early Internet.

    • @pepperwings
      @pepperwings 2 года назад

      Cross-platform compatibility is definitely something my dad wanted to see more of at that time, it took years to get there though.

    • @joeysluzer1913
      @joeysluzer1913 Год назад

      Technology was evolving rapidly then. Display technology was a good example.

  • @andrewlittleboy8532
    @andrewlittleboy8532 4 года назад +9

    3 hours battery life, that’s better than my first laptop in 2004

  • @wallacelang1374
    @wallacelang1374 Год назад +5

    When I had first seen this particular episode in 1989 I liked the idea of having a portable laptop computer, but the prices of those machines were painfully out of my price range. Nearly thirty years later and I still cannot afford the cost of the newest laptops, however the price of a second hand laptop is almost within my budget.

  • @channelkerr
    @channelkerr 4 года назад +9

    12:25 I didn't realise those old colour LCDs looked that bad when brand new!

    • @McVaio
      @McVaio 2 года назад +1

      Passive matrix looks terrible. Especially with repeating patterns.

  • @DaveRino
    @DaveRino Год назад +2

    Imagine going back in time with an iPad Pro and the looks on their faces.

  • @flamingocupproductions5329
    @flamingocupproductions5329 Год назад +3

    i'd watch this all the time when i was 5. strange how i never became a tech kid.

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi Год назад +9

    26:56 A father and son who had lost contact for 29 years found each other again via CompuServe. That is a mark of how difficult it was for people to find each other in the world before Facebook became widespread.

  • @biomed007
    @biomed007 4 года назад +1

    CGA monitors. Ahh what enjoyable memories those spark. I miss those times and that joy in computing. Its utterly tasteless now

  • @OhFishyFish
    @OhFishyFish 2 года назад +4

    Poor Sparky Sparks, surely he got bullied to oblivion in school. What were his parents thinking?

  • @omegaman1409
    @omegaman1409 4 года назад +4

    This was like 7 years before my first laptop. By the way, Sparky Sparks? Perfect nerd name. This guy must have been teased to near death at school.

  • @maxbranigan3236
    @maxbranigan3236 7 месяцев назад +1

    small car, and a small computer... classic!

  • @McVaio
    @McVaio 2 года назад +42

    Love it how the Macintosh Portable crashes unrecoverably 😂😂

    • @joeysluzer1913
      @joeysluzer1913 Год назад +11

      That's because there's a switch on the back that senses if that cover has been removed. You're not supposed to remove it when the machine is running, and the cover supposed to be in place when powering it on. The machine did what it was supposed to do, "crash" because the back cover wasn't on. If that dude was a tech guy instead of salesman, he would have known that.

    • @NickKont
      @NickKont Год назад +2

      I noticed that too...His efforts to recover it by stalling was hilarious!

  • @777jones
    @777jones 7 лет назад +17

    Best of all it only weighs 94 lbs!! This 300 watt baby costs only $37,000 and stores its memory on 128 kilobyte, 6 pound, $750 memory cards. You can throw them and kill an assailant!

  • @JohnMichaelson
    @JohnMichaelson 4 года назад +5

    Ahh the good old days when one measure of a laptop's portability was how long it took for the weight to put your legs to sleep.

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi Год назад +3

    Our next musical act, ladies and gentlemen: Sparky Sparks and the Microchips!

    • @floydjohnson7888
      @floydjohnson7888 Год назад +1

      That was even funnier than "The Iconettes" as an information-services sales exec first referred to Win95 icons

  • @diegocamilopenaramirez6101
    @diegocamilopenaramirez6101 4 года назад +3

    Its incredible that even an iot chip have more compute power or memory that those laptops

    • @OhFishyFish
      @OhFishyFish 3 года назад +3

      My fridge has more computing power...

    • @hhs_leviathan
      @hhs_leviathan 2 года назад

      Unless your white appliance is rocking a new production Z80. Then your 286 sewing machine still gets bragging rights...

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting 11 лет назад +14

    The Macintosh presentation was funny as he essentially showed it's issue. You can take out the battery but there was clearly no guarantee it would boot back up as he had to reset it in the end.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 5 лет назад +5

      Last report from Apple was that they are still working on this issue.

    • @jasonk9779
      @jasonk9779 Год назад

      @@oldtwinsna8347 Wrong. My Mac laptops from 2013 are still working perfectly fine.

  • @progenitor_amborella
    @progenitor_amborella Год назад +2

    Modular laptops, now with Framework we’ve gone back to full circle!

  • @tedbell4416
    @tedbell4416 Год назад +1

    Laptop 89 , lets go

  • @JHMBB2
    @JHMBB2 3 года назад +5

    Must've been intimidating having to show off your computer next to an IBM guy back then.

  • @jwglista
    @jwglista 2 года назад +3

    11:55 check out that screen-to-bezel ratio

    • @e8root
      @e8root Год назад +1

      At least you had proper full size knobs to control brightness and not nonsense FN function key like in todays laptops

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting 11 лет назад +10

    They always looked uncomfortable when trying to advertise their stuff.

    • @lukmly013
      @lukmly013 3 года назад

      Yes, now they don't....... because they use animations.

  • @joaogrrr
    @joaogrrr 6 лет назад +1

    Whoever designed that Dynabook wasn't fucking around, expandability and different use modes.

  • @kalloud11
    @kalloud11 4 года назад +14

    100 hours of battery runtime for a single pair of AA batteries?
    That’s impressive even by 30 years later standards! 🤯

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 4 года назад +2

      Not really, considering there is no backlight involved. Your typical wireless keyboard today has more processing power than that entire palmtop does and can run for hundreds of hours.

    • @raven4k998
      @raven4k998 3 года назад

      @@oldtwinsna8347 3 hours of charging gets you 3 hours of use my have the times have a changed

    • @joojoojeejee6058
      @joojoojeejee6058 2 года назад +1

      @@oldtwinsna8347 100 hours is impressive, backlight or not... Also, it's pretty easy to instantly get extra 100 hours with another set of batteries.

    • @e8root
      @e8root Год назад

      If people really wanted longer battery life they would not get mobile devices you can comfortably use without having to have charger and wall socket on hand. With monochrome backlight-less TN panel which refreshes only what actually changed and very low clock you could have eg. smartphone which would work for days. Software could be written optimally leading to similar actual experience... but nothing beats colorful flashing ads on your smartphone hence we have micro-computers with performance of not so old desktop computers

  • @RWL2012
    @RWL2012 11 лет назад +3

    Wow the touchscreen one!!! In the late eighties!

    • @megabojan1993
      @megabojan1993 10 лет назад +6

      A touchscreen with handwriting recognition capability. Computers were more advanced in 1989 than I've thought.

    • @gopalm.5521
      @gopalm.5521 3 года назад

      @@megabojan1993 Wonder what type of AI technology was used in handwriting recognition back them

    • @megabojan1993
      @megabojan1993 3 года назад

      @@gopalm.5521 Probably a very basic one. I remember using the handwriting recognition on a PC back in 2003/4 and it wasn't very good.

  • @rk2ist
    @rk2ist 10 лет назад +10

    lol sparky sparks

  • @Gary_Hun
    @Gary_Hun Год назад

    Sparky... Sparks?.. i was expecting a cute little doggo to wuff back at Gary in response.

  • @johnsimon8457
    @johnsimon8457 2 года назад +1

    3:30 It's not a laptop dock - it's a nest!

  • @Alpha8713
    @Alpha8713 5 лет назад +4

    Wow! A computer that fits in your lap! What will they think of next?

  • @nece9908
    @nece9908 4 года назад

    At this time in history especially in 1989 they already had touch tablets pen point based and. small. desktop organizers. like palm pilots and labtop were emerging but i would doubt that thier. battery life. in 1989 was three hour probalble about 10 minutes . but at. how. along way computers have comes now labtops are gaming computers and Macbook Pro are now gaming. computers with 8 gb of. video memory and this is amazing how far we came.. I was born around 1990. Go Computer Chronicles RIP Gary Kiddal.

  • @CaptchaNeon
    @CaptchaNeon 4 года назад +5

    It’s over 8,000 bucks, 30 pounds and you have to keep it plugged in to use it 🤦🏽‍♀️ You got an extremely expensive desktop 😆

  • @maxbranigan3236
    @maxbranigan3236 7 месяцев назад

    okay starting to watch now, good so far!

  • @twigstudios
    @twigstudios 11 лет назад +10

    Those prices in the early days of computers were ridiculous. $8500, $7000, for no color, no memory, no hard drive space, really heavy form and no internet. So glad computers have rapidly evolved. No wonder my dad bought us a second hand C64/128 and we kept that baby for years...

    • @floydjohnson7888
      @floydjohnson7888 3 года назад

      Holy (expletive)! IIRC, the street price of a C64 in 1984 was about $200-250 (this was in a notoriously economically-depressed bit of Rust Belt called Northwest Indiana)

    • @InFiniTosEntertainment
      @InFiniTosEntertainment Год назад +1

      And holy crap, this comment is ten years old! It's crazy what tech we have right in our pockets now!

    • @CatPetter-gy8ss
      @CatPetter-gy8ss Год назад

      I too am from South Bend

  • @channelkerr
    @channelkerr 4 года назад

    02:48 I reckon that's a Toshiba T3100. Surprised they weren't showing off the new T3200/T5200 models at this show.

  • @The_Traveling_Clown
    @The_Traveling_Clown 5 лет назад +4

    LoL! This laptops cost in upwards of $8K. And I thought I over spent a few weeks ago when I built a ryzen 5 1500x for less than $500.

    • @okaro6595
      @okaro6595 5 лет назад

      It woudl be twice that in current money.

  • @RollOnToVictory
    @RollOnToVictory 11 лет назад +5

    I wanna go back in time with my iPad and blow their freakin minds!

    • @andreiandrei3387
      @andreiandrei3387 6 лет назад +3

      RollOnToVictory if someone comes 30 years from now and you showed them your iPad they would laugh they a** off:))

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 5 лет назад +1

      Well, 5 years ago you didn't have the Ipad Pro.. .So I guess you'd be blown away reading this back in time?

    • @yellowblanka6058
      @yellowblanka6058 4 года назад +3

      That or they'd be surprised were not further along. If you compare the progress made between 1989 and 1999 and then 2009 to 2019 you can see Moore's Law has almost ground to a halt.

    • @hepphepps8356
      @hepphepps8356 Год назад +2

      I think they would be more mindblown by the fact you travelled in time than your puny iPad. The iPad was conceptualised in the 60’s, and wouldn’t surprise these guys one tiny bit.

  • @jgordon7719
    @jgordon7719 Год назад +1

    Could you imagine spending thousands of dollars for this technology all for it to change so rapidly in a span of five years

    • @CatPetter-gy8ss
      @CatPetter-gy8ss Год назад

      These were all expense account purchases. B2B sales stuff. Individuals weren’t buying this stuff. 9k then is like 30k now and the only thing they did was work stuff.

  • @UKSCIENCEORG
    @UKSCIENCEORG 7 месяцев назад

    Those machines costing thousands in the late 80s can now be picked up on eBay for a couple hundred bucks. I dreamed of owning one back then.

  • @NineteenEightyFive
    @NineteenEightyFive 4 года назад +2

    sparky sparks? why would you do that to a kid LOL

  • @cabasse_music
    @cabasse_music Год назад

    15:45 this was the same computer bt used to produce his first album 'ima' in the mid 90s

  • @channelkerr
    @channelkerr 4 года назад

    Imagine the battery runtime on a 286 equivalent these days, with LCD screen, 1MB RAM and 40MB storage! Literally DAYS!

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 4 года назад +2

      No need to imagine. Even the lowest end smartphone from 5 years ago has more processing power than a Cray 1 supercomputer and can do just that.

  • @yogibear2k220
    @yogibear2k220 Год назад

    Sparky Sparks. The world's greatest name!

  • @sergheiadrian
    @sergheiadrian Год назад +1

    A battery pack the size of a modern ultrabook for 4 hour of battery life.

  • @Fiilis1
    @Fiilis1 11 лет назад +8

    20:33 :D SLAM! haha

    • @megabojan1993
      @megabojan1993 5 лет назад +1

      Yikes. He slammed that PC like it is a worthless piece of junk :)

  • @anzwertree
    @anzwertree 11 лет назад +4

    This dude's name is Sparky Sparks?

    • @stevetrop
      @stevetrop 4 года назад +1

      That reminds me of a friend growing up named Chris P. Bacon.

    • @CaptchaNeon
      @CaptchaNeon 4 года назад

      Yes that’s his name in real life, he’s dead now

    • @FlyboyHelosim
      @FlyboyHelosim 4 года назад +1

      He should have been an electrician!

  • @12me91
    @12me91 11 лет назад +1

    Even back then laptops were trying, in vain, to replace desktops. Until we can fit multiple gpus and gpus in a laptop and overclock then and liquid cool them they wont replace.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 5 лет назад

      In the enterprise market, laptops have in fact replaced desktops for quite some time now. The current trend is to have laptops replaced through tablets or mobile phones and you see the same pattern going on.

    • @yellowblanka6058
      @yellowblanka6058 4 года назад

      For the tiny niche of people using multiple GPUs, sure, but for most of the mainstream market, laptops/tablets/ultraportables have undoubtedly replaced desktops. Also, there are more powerful thin gaming laptops now (though they are considerably more expensive than comparable desktop hardware) with GPUs that perform nearly indistinguishably from their desktop counterparts.

  • @Mike1614YT
    @Mike1614YT 4 года назад +1

    Sparky has been banned from the fireworks tent

  • @darksidealice
    @darksidealice 6 лет назад +2

    Haha Eppley almoust sounds like Äpple (which is Apple in swedish :P )

  • @DavstrWrexham
    @DavstrWrexham 6 лет назад

    I wonder what they would have made of my modern laptop with it's quad core cpu, GPU, 8 gig of ram, 15 inch HD display and SSD.

    • @floydjohnson7888
      @floydjohnson7888 3 года назад

      @DavstrWrexham With twice the RAM, and a proper drive (eMMc storage is the "Puppy Power" cognate to the SSD), your machine is a beast compared to my Linuxed-up Acer Chromebook 14.

  • @kevinjhonson5925
    @kevinjhonson5925 5 лет назад +1

    Man 8k for a laptop back then would be like 12k now.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 2 года назад

      @Drew Or still paying for it on original very high interest rate plans, only making monthly minimums. Edit: This was 1989 and some may have taken a 2nd mortgage out to pay for one so conceivably it is possible they were making payments up until current times!

    • @pcampbell3068
      @pcampbell3068 Год назад

      No worse than that. 34 years. Would be closer to 19.

  • @halfsourlizard9319
    @halfsourlizard9319 Год назад

    19:39 How nice, b.s. PowerPoint-style 'multimedia presentations' that should never have existed.

  • @unnamedchannel1237
    @unnamedchannel1237 2 месяца назад

    All the good ones are fully functional screamers

  • @RollOnToVictory
    @RollOnToVictory 11 лет назад +2

    $8,500 in adjusted for 2013 inflation would be about $15,968 in our current dollar. damn

  • @aviduser1961
    @aviduser1961 4 года назад +1

    The Wild West of computers.

  • @MovingThePicture
    @MovingThePicture 7 лет назад +1

    What happened to the Mac did it break during the presentation?

    • @egis7754
      @egis7754 6 лет назад +1

      Очевидно, что-то пошло не так и он выключился :) Более того, я уверен что его так и не удалось включить. В конце, после того как Стюарт попросил включить его еще раз, вставили отдельно записанное видео, поэтому не слышно кликов мыши (кнопку трекбола), которые в начале презентации хорошо слышны.

    • @MovingThePicture
      @MovingThePicture 6 лет назад

      Egis
      ?

    • @Fuzy2K
      @Fuzy2K 6 лет назад

      @@MovingThePicture "Obviously, something went wrong and he turned off :) Moreover, I am sure that he was never turned on. At the end, after Stewart asked to turn it on again, they inserted a separately recorded video, so you can’t hear the mouse clicks (trackball button), which are clearly audible at the beginning of the presentation." (Google Translate)

  • @Stormy2142
    @Stormy2142 Год назад

    a mac that's all modular and accessible.

  • @whattheheck1000
    @whattheheck1000 10 лет назад +3

    @nthnbt8 It is Season 7, Episode 4 so counting back from episodes with known air dates in March 1990 (718 on March 1, 720 on March 15) you would get Thursday, November 23, 1989, assuming a broadcast every week. Occasionally, there would be multiple broadcasts in a week, and some weeks of course had no CC episode. The season usually started in late September, so this episode could have been as early as mid October. On the other hand, sometimes episodes were broadcast out of production order, but they were usually close.
    The episode was being filmed on October 6, 1989. A lot of the early Season 7 episodes' graphics weren't quite transitioned over yet ("Low Cost LANs" is a great example). I would say this episode could very well have aired on November 23, 1989 (that is Thanksgiving, though). I'd put it likely in November or December 1989. Definitely late in the year.
    April 16, 2014 1:27 am

  • @artnaim
    @artnaim 9 лет назад +5

    JESUS ! Color laptop for $8000 in 1989 !!! I'm glad those times are over. How much is that in today's $$$ ??? Like $20,000 ? Insanity. I think only Apple was more expensive back then.

    • @themaritimegirl
      @themaritimegirl 9 лет назад +2

      Art About $15000. It wasn't insanity, it was brand new technology. A "normal" laptop with a black and white screen was already $5000 or so, then add a few thousand for the color display, since they were brand new and extremely difficult to manufacture.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 9 лет назад +4

      +Art basically, no normal person could afford one. it's like buying a really good 3D printer today (not just junk ones, but a GOOD one that can make real things) is out of price of the average person, but in 10-20 years they will be as commonplace as a $20 smartphone today.

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b 4 года назад

    "In the future, the rest of it will be as small as the screen".

  • @ericn9vjg
    @ericn9vjg 8 лет назад +9

    I wish the modern mac laptops were modular. They make it very hard to simply replace a battery.

    • @douglab222
      @douglab222 8 лет назад +7

      :) simple. Don't buy apple.

  • @barriewilson3052
    @barriewilson3052 4 года назад +1

    $6000 in 1989 =
    $12,445.55 in 2020

  • @AcornElectron
    @AcornElectron Год назад +1

    11:05 $6000 for that piece of shit

  • @e8root
    @e8root Год назад

    3:30 so this was how first smart cellphone... it even has screen size comparable to todays smartphones!

  • @louistournas120
    @louistournas120 8 лет назад +16

    13:00 I'm Maria Gabbbb..... riel.

    • @george.b.
      @george.b. 6 лет назад

      Ha! I thought I was the only one getting bugged by it!

    • @yellowblanka6058
      @yellowblanka6058 4 года назад

      Yeah, that is so bizarre, she always does it.

  • @MrBronsonNY
    @MrBronsonNY 6 лет назад +4

    Sparky Sparks???? Look kid, we are not playing around here, this is a serious computer show.

  • @TheArfdog
    @TheArfdog 11 лет назад

    Multiple GPUs? Liquid cooling? Those are features of poorly designed computers. CPU's aren't overclocked for a reason, they aren't designed to run that hot for a long period.

  • @aaron-fauth
    @aaron-fauth 2 месяца назад

    The Mac portable just died beyond repair.

  • @EdwinvandenAkker
    @EdwinvandenAkker 4 года назад +1

    Is it just me, or were the computers back than massively expensive? Considering the inflation and all that...

    • @CaptchaNeon
      @CaptchaNeon 4 года назад

      They were very expensive around $8,000 in today’s money and didn’t do much TBH

    • @floydjohnson7888
      @floydjohnson7888 3 года назад

      A simplification of Moore's law holds that, for a given amount of money, the "computing power" (CPU cycles per second, storage space, or whatever) that can be bought doubles roughly every 18 months.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 2 года назад +1

      It was NOT a fun era to live in if you were broke or even average income. Only could afford old tech. Like in 1989 i was still using a C64 8 bit because I could not afford anything more (not because I had no interest in stepping up).

  • @jonnyrockwell
    @jonnyrockwell 5 лет назад

    Sparky Sparks Crazy name...Krazy guy!!

  • @johngrave5554
    @johngrave5554 4 года назад

    I wonder how long this laptop batterys would last with the battery technology we have now

  • @ej_tech
    @ej_tech 11 лет назад +3

    Watching this on a Core i5 laptop. Right beside it is an iPod touch

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 4 года назад

      6 years later iPod touches are obsolete . Watching this on an iPhone pro 12 max which is probably more powerful than your I 5 computer

  • @baladi921
    @baladi921 5 лет назад

    Sparky Sparks. What a name lol

    • @mikewosowski342
      @mikewosowski342 4 года назад

      Took all the spotlight from the other guy whose name I literally just seen, and forgot, because sparky.

  • @nthnbt8
    @nthnbt8 11 лет назад

    Did this air on November 23, 1989?

  • @tdcattech
    @tdcattech 3 года назад +1

    It's as if Stewart is just programmed to issue 'confirmation' tones or words like 'got you' or 'right' at preset intervals when he talks to someone regardless of whether the timing is right. He doesn't really listen to anything. The pressure of hosting a tightly timed TV show, I guess.

  • @Zoran1899
    @Zoran1899 4 года назад

    Nice MGB

  • @rooneye
    @rooneye 11 лет назад +1

    05:25 - Please tell me Sparky Sparks is his REAL name :D

  • @halfsourlizard9319
    @halfsourlizard9319 Год назад

    What the heck was a 'typewriter-style keyboard'!?

  • @NuronAtren
    @NuronAtren 7 месяцев назад

    No one ever mentions how rich people were back then.

  • @drewproductions1358
    @drewproductions1358 3 года назад

    what's the obsession with laptops and working in airports?

  • @SimonBuchanNz
    @SimonBuchanNz 2 года назад

    That poor Mac presenter single handedly put Apple out of business.

  • @CloneShockTrooper
    @CloneShockTrooper Год назад

    like the mac keyboard nice smooth and soft.

  • @fortsonre
    @fortsonre Год назад

    Sweet MG Midget

  • @TMitchellTech
    @TMitchellTech 2 года назад

    The MAC was clearly the best one

  • @NathanDrake5
    @NathanDrake5 3 года назад

    Plasma is energy-consuming, isn't it? Weird choice for a laptop.

  • @ratix98
    @ratix98 2 месяца назад

    I want all these things. Lol

  • @markmuller7962
    @markmuller7962 Год назад

    3 Hours of charging gives you 3 hours of use 😅

  • @D1vergentt
    @D1vergentt Год назад

    why did they use vertigo background?

  • @patrickjones2843
    @patrickjones2843 Год назад

    I was at Laptop 89 won beer pong championship 2 days in a row. I called everyone nerds and smashed all the laptops there because it messed up my spreadsheets. I wasnt impressed don't believe the hype.