![]() It felt chunky and dense, and the iBook-inspired soft, round edges gave it a friendliness as well. Although not directly comparable, the fact that the first 12-inch PowerBook G4 had an 867MHz processor while the entry-level Power Mac G4 announced at the same time seemed to be only slightly faster at 1GHz meant that this was when laptops stopped looking like underpowered runts next to desktops.Īnd there was something just hugely cute about the little package all that G4 power was stuffed into. Before it was announced in January 2003, anyone buying a laptop realistically had to decide between capability and portability, but with the 12-inch PowerBook G4, you felt for the first time like you could have both: a powerful machine easily able to be your main Mac, in a tiny, chuck-it-in-a-bag frame. It wasn’t a machine without compromise, as our review at the time made clear, but it felt like it was. The 12-inch PowerBook G4 was such a machine. At its best, Apple has the ability to make stuff that reaches right around the rational, pragmatic part of your brain to grab your amygdala and squeeze it till the juice runs out.
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