When Apple launched its first PowerBook range of laptop computers on October 21, 1991, it also set in motion a computing revolution by firmly establishing the recipe for the laptop computer that all leading PC makers are still following. According to Eric Smith, Strategy Analytics? senior tablet and touchscreen strategies analyst, the first PowerBook?s impact […]The post Apple PowerBook At 25 appeared first on Pursuitist.

When Apple launched its first PowerBook range of laptop computers on October 21, 1991, it also set in motion a computing revolution by firmly establishing the recipe for the laptop computer that all leading PC makers are still following.According to Eric Smith, Strategy Analytics? senior tablet and touchscreen strategies analyst, the first PowerBook?s impact ?is still shaking the industry today.?Just as the telephone led to people?s demanding TV?s invention, the desktop PC had business users in particular asking when a genuinely portable counterpart would land.As the ?80s became the ?90s, Toshiba and Compaq had started on the right track and had taken an early lead in the very nascent laptop market.But Apple loves nothing more than a benchmark to beat.?Apple has done a very good job of letting the market test new technologies for a bit before they refine it and send it through the reality distortion field to make the tech new again,? said Smith. And the PowerBook was the perfect example.It was the lightest and best-looking laptop on the market thanks ...