Yes I still marvel in how far we’ve come.
My employer paid for my first true portable, a PowerBook 100 (still my favorite Apple product name BTW) I was most definitely privileged as it was only one other engineer, our CEO and CFO that got one.
And it was $2495 in $1991 dollars which would be $5450 today.
I also agree it was one of the all-time great laptops and in many ways defined the modern laptop. And I loved the trackball.
OMG - that Lisa could be expanded all the way to 1mb of RAM - insane!
I do have to marvel at tech prices - those new $2499 M2 MacBook Pros would have been only $649 back then.
Another look from the Verge on the legacy of the Lisa. It’s a good article, but I almost stopped reading after the first sentence. “but its influence on computing can’t be understated”.
Do these writers not even go through a basic grammar course ??? " The blindingly obvious PROPER term is OVERSTATED as by definition if you are trying to make the point that it had a wide impact that it doesn’t get the credit for.
Ok rant done, still an interesting article especially give the source, Atkinson.
Lisa’s Family Photos (theverge.com)
PS: Another sure fire way to get me to stop reading is the non word “irregardless” Hello… nonsenicl double negative much…
Wonder if Chat GPT would have made that kind of mistake.
Here I was hoping the word choice was intentional, as the Lisa wasn’t exactly a product line that saw widespread adoption. But no. It is as you say. sigh
It probably DID - it is The Verge after all…