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20 year comparison – Mac Portable and iPod Touch

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

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1989 – Macintosh Portable
7,250g (16 pound)
10-inch (640 x 400) monochrome display
16 MHz Motorola CPU, 1MB RAM
40MB HDD, 3.5-inch floppy drive
2400 baud modem
$6,500 – $7,300 ($11-12,000 today)

2009 – iPod Touch
115g (4.05 oz)
3.5-inch (480 x 320) multi-touch display
600 MHz ARM CPU, 256MB RAM
32GB or 64GB flash drive
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
$299/$399 for 32/64GB

Microsoft Coffee Table Computing

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007