The latest article by Joshua Coventry at Low End Mac.
"Pippin was a multimedia player developed by Apple Computer in the mid 90s. Apple decided to create and license the technology (named Pippin after a type of Apple smaller than a McIntosh) due to their belief that home computers were becoming more and more important and popular with customers.
Apple realized that for multimedia technology to reach the home, the entry price had to be reduced substantially. But a low entry price wouldn't be not enough; the platform had to be distributed by many companies which collectively could reach a much larger audience than one company alone."

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Originally appearing in the April, 1984 issue of Creative Computing, this evaluation by John J. Anderson finds that the Macintosh looks like a winner!
"After much anticipation and much ado, and alongside an advertising campaign the likes of which have never been seen in the microcomputer industry, Apple has finally done it--the Macintosh computer is a reality.
And it is quite an astonishing reality, indeed.
At $2495, Macintosh represents the cutting edge of Apple's bid to regain lost pre-eminence in the microcomputer field, IBM, which reared its big blue head a mere two years ago, has in that time very nearly pulled the carpet out from under Apple. Now it's all up to Macintosh."

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The Macintosh Looks Like a Winner!

A bit of archive digging has produced this 2000 article at The New York Times by Paul Kunkel, on the beloved Color Classic. The article begins:
"When the subject is Macintosh, love often turns to obsession. Such is the case for a small group of Apple aficionados who have decided that the one true Macintosh is the Color Classic.
As the last toaster-size Mac, the Color Classic followed the same basic design first offered in 1984 and was the only model to offer a built-in color display. Unveiled in 1993, the tiny all-in-one Classic disappeared from store shelves in 1994, but it still makes millions of brief appearances each day: the smiling icon that appears during every Mac start-up is a holdover from the Classic."

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A Long-Discontinued Macintosh Still Thrills Collectors to the Core

Another great new article by Tom Hormby at Low End Mac. It begins:
"One of the less well known Mac clones, the MaxxBoxx was released in Germany in July 1997 to fill the needs of users with very demanding applications. In a stunning enclosure, the MaxxBoxx was easy to open and upgrade. The machine was built into a cube that was twice as wide as an ordinary mini tower with room for up to ten drives."

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MaxxBoxx: The Biggest, Most Colorful, Least Known Mac Clones

Published in 1997 at TidBITS, this article by Marc Bizer, examines the rock-solid PowerBook 3400. It begins:
"I was overjoyed to have been selected as a seed site to test a new PowerBook, the much-anticipated machine code-named Hooper, which Apple shipped on 17-Feb-97 as the PowerBook 3400. I had no idea how Hooper had been named - did it mean the laptop would jump through hoops which no other portable computers had jumped before? All I knew for sure was that I was eager to try Apple's fastest portable ever."

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PowerBook 3400: The Ultimate Laptop?