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13 апр. 2021 г.

• Added new CLI commands:
  Added CLI commands: Set Password, Register Licence, Get Alias, ID, Status or Version. More info by the link https://support.anydesk.com/Command_Line_Interface

1 мар. 2021 г.

• Support for native resolution:
  New option to transfer image in native (Retina) resolution.
• Bug on multi-monitor systems:
  Mouse pointer coordinate transfer issue on multi-monitor system is fixed.
• Bug with rendering:
  Bug which may cause image rendering glitches is fixed.

27 янв. 2021 г.

• Extended drag'n'drop support:
  Address book supports moving and copying items via drag'n'drop. Create desktop shortcuts for AnyDesk sessions via drag'n'drop
• New option for handling display resolution:
  'Auto-adapt Resolution' option in Display menu is now supported.
• Remote screen handling:
  AnyDesk doesn't light up the remote screen when only 'File Manager' feature is used.
• Privacy feature support:
  Privacy feature availability is now properly reported for older macOS versions.
• General usage bugs:
  Error which prevented some customers from accessing Address Book is fixed. Error which prevented some customers from accessing Address Book is fixed.

12 нояб. 2020 г.

• Support for new macOS:
  Added support for new macOS 11 Big Sur.
• Support for new hardware:
  Added support for new Apple Silicon hardware.
• File manager layout bug:
  Fixed issue with File Manager UI layut under certain situations.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

7 окт. 2020 г.

• Session recording:
  Separated settings for incoming and outgoing automatic session recording.
• Security improvement:
  Security improved for configurations with AnyDesk service installed.
• Remote mouse cursor shape:
  Fixed bug when remote mouse cursor has a wrong shape when using specific applications.

22 сент. 2020 г.

• Important - end of support for macOS 10.10 (Yosemite):
  Version 6.0.2 is the last to support macOS 10.10 (Yosemite). We strongly recommend upgrading to newer macOS version in order to receive further AnyDesk updates.
• Settings improvement:
  Improved Settings for Interactive access.
• User interface fixes:
  Fixed menu actions for File Transfer and VPN sessions. Main window startup position issue fixed. Main window startup position issue fixed.
• Screen recording permissions:
  Fixed Screen Recording permission detection for Chinese users.

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26 авг. 2020 г.

• Improved iOS support:
  Support for improved connections to iOS devices.
• Speed dial bugfix:
  Fixed disabled context menu on Speed Dial items.

6 авг. 2020 г.

• Two-Factor Authentication:
  When enabled, an additional dialog will be shown after authentication by password or token, requesting a time-based one-time password provided by a third device. This feature requires an app supporting TOTP.
• Wake-on-Lan:
  When enabled, devices running AnyDesk that are currently in sleep mode can be woken up by other AnyDesk devices in the same local network.
• Speed dial improvement:
  Hide individual item groups in Speed Dial.
• Keyboard layout:
  Fixed bug when keyboard layout does not match to input into Unattended Access password dialog.
• Speed dial bugfix:
  Fixed issue which prevented renaming of Speed Dial items.
• Incorrect online state:
  Fixed issue when sleeping mac reported incorrect online state.
• Important - support for macOS 10.10 (Yosemite):
  We plan to discontinue macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) support soon. We strongly recommend upgrading to newer macOS version.

17 июл. 2020 г.

• VPN connection:
  With this mode two PCs can be put into a private network over a secured connection.
• Support for 2FA:
  Added support for connecting to Two-factor authentication enabled hosts.
• TCP tunnel automated action:
  Run user script when TCP tunnel is connected.
• Installation procedure:
  Drag'n'drop to Applications folder installation method is offered by default now (legacy install method is still supported).
• New menu option:
  Install Anydesk Service menu option added.
• Support for macOS Big Sur beta:
  Fixed application crash on macOS Big Sur beta.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

15 июн. 2020 г.

• Bugfix:
  Fixed software update notification.

10 июн. 2020 г.

• Address Book view mode:
  Thumbnail view mode has been added to Address Book.
• Split Full Screen experience:
  Split Full Screen experience enabled for Connection Window and Address Book.
• Automatic startup:
  Option to disable automatic startup of AnyDesk has been added.
• Compatibility with mobile devices:
  Keyboard input from mobile devices improved.
• Connection type icon:
  Connection type icon is now displayed correctly.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

7 мая 2020 г.

• Access Control List:
  New feature Access Control List (or white list for incoming connections) is now available.
• Multiple sessions:
  Added support for multiple session windows.
• Address Book:
  Address Book improved for better usability.
• Privacy permissions:
  Improved macOS privacy permissions handling.
• Compatibility:
  Improved compatibility with 3rd party software.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

21 апр. 2020 г.

• Crash bugfix:
  Fixed a crash when user account picture is not set.

17 апр. 2020 г.

• TCP Tunnels:
  New TCP Tunneling (or Port-Forwrding) feature added.
• Address Book new design:
  Address Book has been completely redesigned for easier usage.
• Start/Stop of session recording:
  It is now possible to start/stop recording during the active session.
• New information windows:
  Added new System Information window and redesigned the About window.
• Discovery feature security:
  Significantly improved security of Discovery feature.
• Accept window security:
  Significantly improved security of Accept window.
• Power usage improvement:
  Optimised power usage for mac laptops.
• Improved mouse scrolling:
  Mouse scroll sensitivity adjusted.
• Remote restart:
  Fixed remote restart issue on some configurations.
• UI bug fixes:
  Fixed Password change UI for unattended access. Fixed Proxy configuration settings UI.

2 апр. 2020 г.

• Error handling:
  Improved error handling.
• Privacy permissions:
  Better macOS privacy permissions handling.

7 февр. 2020 г.

• Enhanced usability:
  Host key option allows users to use Right Command key to control the local macOS while connected to remote device.
• Improved compatibility with Android devices:
  Added support for Home and Back buttons when connected to Android device.
• Installer improvement:
  Reduced number of user password requests in AnyDesk installer.
• AnyDesk remote update:
  Fixed issue when user is not able to reconnect after updating AnyDesk remotely.
• Custom Client on Yosemite:
  Fixed crash on macOS 10.10 Yosemite related to custom AnyDesk configurations.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

14 янв. 2020 г.

• File manager:
  File Manager upload function fixed.
• Reconnect after AnyDesk update:
  Fixed issue when user unable to reconnect after installing AnyDesk update.
• Connection retry attempt:
  Fixed crash on multiple connection retry attempt.
• Keyboard input:
  Improved keyboard input handling.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

11 дек. 2019 г.

• Accept window minimize:
  It is now possible to minimize the Accept window into the Dock.
• Installation process:
  Installation process has been improved.
• Recent sessions list:
  Fixed display of client name in recent sessions list.
• Remove displays:
  Fixed indicator of remote displays.
• Chat:
  Fixed crash on incoming chat message.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

4 дек. 2019 г.

• New Privacy feature:
  Enabling privacy mode during a session will turn off the monitor on the remote side so the screen content is hidden.
• Blocking user input:
  Mouse and keyboard input can now blocked for the computer being controlled.
• Automatic screen lock:
  New option to automatically lock remote screen when session ended.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

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• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

5 нояб. Abilitysuccess: lifegaurd mac os. 2019 г.

• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

21 окт. 2019 г.

• New features:
  Incoming connections are now displayed in the AnyDesk Dock icon
• Bugfix:
  Fixed issue when user is unable to reconnect to macOS Catalina and Mojave after remote restart.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

10 окт. 2019 г.

• Fixes:
  Fixed update function in new version notification and minor bugfixes.

8 окт. 2019 г.

• Fixes:
  Fixed crash on macOS 10.15 Catalina for remove keyboard input.

8 окт. 2019 г.

• New features:
  Added Discovery feature and better support for macOS 10.15 Catalina
• Fixes:
  Minor bugfixes

27 янв. 2021 г.

• Extended drag'n'drop support:
  Address book supports moving and copying items via drag'n'drop. Create desktop shortcuts for AnyDesk sessions via drag'n'drop
• New option for handling display resolution:
  'Auto-adapt Resolution' option in Display menu is now supported.
• Remote screen handling:
  AnyDesk doesn't light up the remote screen when only 'File Manager' feature is used.
• Privacy feature support:
  Privacy feature availability is now properly reported for older macOS versions.
• General usage bugs:
  Error which prevented some customers from accessing Address Book is fixed. Error which prevented some customers from accessing Address Book is fixed.

12 нояб. 2020 г.

• Support for new macOS:
  Added support for new macOS 11 Big Sur.
• Support for new hardware:
  Added support for new Apple Silicon hardware.
• File manager layout bug:
  Fixed issue with File Manager UI layut under certain situations.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

7 окт. 2020 г.

• Session recording:
  Separated settings for incoming and outgoing automatic session recording.
• Security improvement:
  Security improved for configurations with AnyDesk service installed.
• Remote mouse cursor shape:
  Fixed bug when remote mouse cursor has a wrong shape when using specific applications.

22 сент. 2020 г.

• Important - end of support for macOS 10.10 (Yosemite):
  Version 6.0.2 is the last to support macOS 10.10 (Yosemite). We strongly recommend upgrading to newer macOS version in order to receive further AnyDesk updates.
• Settings improvement:
  Improved Settings for Interactive access.
• User interface fixes:
  Fixed menu actions for File Transfer and VPN sessions. Main window startup position issue fixed. Main window startup position issue fixed.
• Screen recording permissions:
  Fixed Screen Recording permission detection for Chinese users.

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26 авг. 2020 г.

• Improved iOS support:
  Support for improved connections to iOS devices.
• Speed dial bugfix:
  Fixed disabled context menu on Speed Dial items.

6 авг. 2020 г.

• Two-Factor Authentication:
  When enabled, an additional dialog will be shown after authentication by password or token, requesting a time-based one-time password provided by a third device. This feature requires an app supporting TOTP.
• Wake-on-Lan:
  When enabled, devices running AnyDesk that are currently in sleep mode can be woken up by other AnyDesk devices in the same local network.
• Speed dial improvement:
  Hide individual item groups in Speed Dial.
• Keyboard layout:
  Fixed bug when keyboard layout does not match to input into Unattended Access password dialog.
• Speed dial bugfix:
  Fixed issue which prevented renaming of Speed Dial items.
• Incorrect online state:
  Fixed issue when sleeping mac reported incorrect online state.
• Important - support for macOS 10.10 (Yosemite):
  We plan to discontinue macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) support soon. We strongly recommend upgrading to newer macOS version.

17 июл. 2020 г.

• VPN connection:
  With this mode two PCs can be put into a private network over a secured connection.
• Support for 2FA:
  Added support for connecting to Two-factor authentication enabled hosts.
• TCP tunnel automated action:
  Run user script when TCP tunnel is connected.
• Installation procedure:
  Drag'n'drop to Applications folder installation method is offered by default now (legacy install method is still supported).
• New menu option:
  Install Anydesk Service menu option added.
• Support for macOS Big Sur beta:
  Fixed application crash on macOS Big Sur beta.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

15 июн. 2020 г.

• Bugfix:
  Fixed software update notification.

10 июн. 2020 г.

• Address Book view mode:
  Thumbnail view mode has been added to Address Book.
• Split Full Screen experience:
  Split Full Screen experience enabled for Connection Window and Address Book.
• Automatic startup:
  Option to disable automatic startup of AnyDesk has been added.
• Compatibility with mobile devices:
  Keyboard input from mobile devices improved.
• Connection type icon:
  Connection type icon is now displayed correctly.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

7 мая 2020 г.

• Access Control List:
  New feature Access Control List (or white list for incoming connections) is now available.
• Multiple sessions:
  Added support for multiple session windows.
• Address Book:
  Address Book improved for better usability.
• Privacy permissions:
  Improved macOS privacy permissions handling.
• Compatibility:
  Improved compatibility with 3rd party software.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

21 апр. 2020 г.

• Crash bugfix:
  Fixed a crash when user account picture is not set.

17 апр. 2020 г.

• TCP Tunnels:
  New TCP Tunneling (or Port-Forwrding) feature added.
• Address Book new design:
  Address Book has been completely redesigned for easier usage.
• Start/Stop of session recording:
  It is now possible to start/stop recording during the active session.
• New information windows:
  Added new System Information window and redesigned the About window.
• Discovery feature security:
  Significantly improved security of Discovery feature.
• Accept window security:
  Significantly improved security of Accept window.
• Power usage improvement:
  Optimised power usage for mac laptops.
• Improved mouse scrolling:
  Mouse scroll sensitivity adjusted.
• Remote restart:
  Fixed remote restart issue on some configurations.
• UI bug fixes:
  Fixed Password change UI for unattended access. Fixed Proxy configuration settings UI.

2 апр. 2020 г.

• Error handling:
  Improved error handling.
• Privacy permissions:
  Better macOS privacy permissions handling.

7 февр. 2020 г.

• Enhanced usability:
  Host key option allows users to use Right Command key to control the local macOS while connected to remote device.
• Improved compatibility with Android devices:
  Added support for Home and Back buttons when connected to Android device.
• Installer improvement:
  Reduced number of user password requests in AnyDesk installer.
• AnyDesk remote update:
  Fixed issue when user is not able to reconnect after updating AnyDesk remotely.
• Custom Client on Yosemite:
  Fixed crash on macOS 10.10 Yosemite related to custom AnyDesk configurations.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

14 янв. 2020 г.

• File manager:
  File Manager upload function fixed.
• Reconnect after AnyDesk update:
  Fixed issue when user unable to reconnect after installing AnyDesk update.
• Connection retry attempt:
  Fixed crash on multiple connection retry attempt.
• Keyboard input:
  Improved keyboard input handling.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

11 дек. 2019 г.

• Accept window minimize:
  It is now possible to minimize the Accept window into the Dock.
• Installation process:
  Installation process has been improved.
• Recent sessions list:
  Fixed display of client name in recent sessions list.
• Remove displays:
  Fixed indicator of remote displays.
• Chat:
  Fixed crash on incoming chat message.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

4 дек. 2019 г.

• New Privacy feature:
  Enabling privacy mode during a session will turn off the monitor on the remote side so the screen content is hidden.
• Blocking user input:
  Mouse and keyboard input can now blocked for the computer being controlled.
• Automatic screen lock:
  New option to automatically lock remote screen when session ended.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

We are all ants (plumthumbs) mac os. 18 нояб. 2019 г.

• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

5 нояб. Abilitysuccess: lifegaurd mac os. 2019 г.

• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

21 окт. 2019 г.

• New features:
  Incoming connections are now displayed in the AnyDesk Dock icon
• Bugfix:
  Fixed issue when user is unable to reconnect to macOS Catalina and Mojave after remote restart.
• Fixes:
  Fixed couple of small bugs.

10 окт. 2019 г.

• Fixes:
  Fixed update function in new version notification and minor bugfixes.

8 окт. 2019 г.

• Fixes:
  Fixed crash on macOS 10.15 Catalina for remove keyboard input.

8 окт. 2019 г.

• New features:
  Added Discovery feature and better support for macOS 10.15 Catalina
• Fixes:
  Minor bugfixes

6 июн. 2019 г.

• Redesign:
  New user interface design.
• Fixes:
  Minor bugfixes.

12 окт. 2018 г.

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• File manager:
  File Manager now available on macOS.
• Screenshots:
  Screenshots are now stored to the Desktop.
• Speed Dial items:
  Solved loss of Speed Dial items issue.

13 июл. 2018 г.

• Enhanced Usability:
  Implemented custom context menu for AnyDesk ID (claim alias, show alias/show id, copy address).
• Claim Alias now available:
  Implemented claim alias feature for macOS, users can now choose an alias.
• Keyboard Usability:
  During a session, the hotkeys of macOS are disabled locally so they can be transmitted to the remote side.
• Incoming file manager session refreshes:
  Folder content was not refreshed on the remote side on copying files. The file manager view now refreshes automatically.
• Compatibility for file manager session:
  Incoming file transfer sessions did not allow to change directory to folders containing a space character.
• Usability:
  Select and Copy using Command+C now works on the AnyDesk ID.
• Keep session alive:
  AnyDesk now prevents macOS from going to sleep mode when there is an active session.
• Request elevation improved:
  Fixed an issue in the request elevation feature.

14 июн. 2018 г.

• Fixed Bug:
  In some cases, the installation did not work at the first attempt. This should now always succeed on the first entry of the admin password.
• Fixed Bug:
  The clipoard did not work when connecting to macOS. The clipboard should now work in any case, including clipboard file transfer. Please click the file button at the top of the AnyDesk window in order to receive files from the clipboard on macOS.
• Fixed Bug:
  Improved stability.
• Fixed Bug:
  Removed the warning that the file is downloaded from the internet.

11 апр. 2018 г.

• Address Book:
  The macOS version now supports your license's shared address books.
• Session recording and playback:
  Implemented recording and playback of sessions.
• Connect to the login screen:
  The macOS version also runs as a service and supports connections to the login screen, full unattended access, and user switching.

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In the 1980s, using a computer was all about sitting at a desk. Mobility in computing meant putting your files on a disk and taking the disk to a different (but compatible) computer. When I was in college, I bought a big padded case that was designed to fit any classic Mac, so I could carry my computer home with me for holidays. The luxury! It made my 17-pound Mac SE a 'portable' computer.

There were early portable computers available that ran all sorts of operating systems, but for the Mac, the padded carrying case was as portable as things got until the fall of 1989, when Apple introduced a Mac that was slightly more amenable to be moved from place to place than my Mac SE—the Macintosh Portable.

Enter the ‘luggable'

The Macintosh Portable was groundbreaking, while also being a colossal misfire. In many ways, it illustrated all the decisions that a company like Apple had to make in those days when it came to building a portable computer—and many of those decisions were simply the wrong ones.

If this seems like criticism that comes from the privileged position of being an observer three decades in the future, I'll point out that in the Mac Portable's launch cover story in Macworld, writer Bruce F. Webster summoned up the courage to write that the Mac Portable 'certainly isn't a failure.' Damned with the faintest of praise.

From an engineering standpoint, the Mac Portable is fascinating. Apple essentially jammed an entire Mac SE, including pretty much every port—yes, even the enormous floppy and SCSI ports—into a polycarbonate enclosure. There was also a lead-acid battery, a full-sized keyboard, a trackball, and a 640×400 active-matrix LCD screen.

As a result, the thing was enormous—15 inches by 15 inches, and four inches thick (tapering to two inches at the narrow end), and weighed 16 pounds. At the press launch event for the product, Apple was careful to refer to it as a portable, not as a laptop—because (truth in advertising) this thing was not going to sit on anyone's lap. It was immediately dubbed a 'luggable' in the press. It was more portable than my SE in its carrying case, but not by much. (It also cost $7,300, or more than $15,000 in today's dollars!)

That lead-acid battery weighed a ton, but thanks to it and the power-management techniques Apple built into the Mac Portable—including the Mac's first sleep mode—it got somewhere between six and twelve hours of battery life. (If you could load everything into RAM and keep the hard drive from spinning up, you could hit the high side of this total. Years later, when I used an early PowerBook, this trick was still the name of the game. Hard drives were battery killers.)

The screen was really quite good. Active-matrix LCDs were crisp and readable, basically the E Ink of their day. Most importantly, they refreshed the screen immediately, eliminating an unfortunate effect called 'ghosting' that was found on cheaper passive-matrix LCDs. The ghosting effect created a little ghost image of your cursor that would follow the real cursor around the screen as you moved it. There was none of that on the Mac Portable.

https://qjsfrealofmoneyfunbookingbonushouse.peatix.com. Yes, the Portable's display was black-and-white, but that was par for the course back then. Unfortunately, it didn't have a backlight, so while you could travel with the Mac Portable, you could only use it in a well-lit room. (Later Apple offered a variant with a backlight, and a kit to add a backlight to older models, but it really ate into the computer's battery life.)

The Mac Portable's keyboard was also really good. It was modeled on the standard Mac keyboards of the period, and was truly desktop class, with clacky ALPS keyswitches offering a lot of key travel.

The keyboard configuration was remarkably open to the needs of its potential users, too. By default, the keyboard was placed to the left, with a trackball (used as the pointing device) to the right. But you could optionally flip the orientation, so a left-handed user could (after popping open a bunch of plastic latches, something you were advised to let your local Apple reseller do for you) place the trackball to the left and the keyboard to the right. Apple even sold a numeric keypad, designed to go in the space taken up by the trackball—so if you preferred a numpad and were willing to use an external mouse, you could set up your Mac Portable that way.

The Mac Portable is one of the most notable Macs ever because it was Apple's first attempt to make a portable Mac, because it looks like no other Mac ever made, and because it was a complete failure.

Reading the coverage of the release of the first PowerBooks in 1991 makes it clear that after the smoke had cleared, nobody who took the Mac seriously thought the Mac Portable was anything but a flop. 'If you weren't around for the Mac Portable fiasco two years ago, Apple couldn't afford to make the same half-baked mistake twice,' wrote MacUser editor in chief Jon Zilber.

Speaking of MacUser, I need to mention the cover of its November 1989 issue, which introduced the Mac Portable. By the time I arrived at MacUser as an intern in the summer of 1993, this cover had become legendary—or to be more accurate, infamous. It features a woman in a red swimsuit and sunglasses, sitting on a floating pool chair, with a cordless phone to one ear, a drink and some documents on one arm of the chair, and a Mac Portable on the other. Hi-tech racing mac os.

The idea that you'd tenuously place an expensive laptop on a pool chair is no more hilariously wrong today than it was back then, though it certainly illustrated the point. But I am led to believe that many of the editors at MacUser, then led by publisher and editorial director Paul Somerson, felt that Somerson pushed sexist imagery on the cover of a computer magazine a bit too often. A brief survey of early-90s MacUser covers reveals at least two others that show the bodies (or body parts) of women in alluring poses. The Mac Portable cover is the least sexy of the lot, mostly because that poor woman looks like she may be about to tip over into the pool, taking her enormous laptop and its lead-acid battery with her.

(Macworld's cover, in contrast, features two Mac Portables on a black table with a nondescript background. This contrast, while extreme, is not a bad example of the difference between the two U.S. Mac magazines in the early '90s—one a fun group of rebels who sometimes made questionable decisions, the other a more restrained group of professionals. Whether you considered MacUser sophomoric or Macworld boring was a matter of taste. I was a MacUser subscriber and employee years before I worked at Macworld, so you know where I stood.)

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Two years after the release of the Mac Portable, Apple finally got the laptop right with the introduction of the first PowerBooks. But while two of those first PowerBook models were the wave of the future, the third was a retread of the past.

In the early 1990s, everyone—including Apple—stood in awe of the electronics miniaturization prowess of Sony. Sony cameras packed shocking amounts of tech into tiny places. This was an era where Japanese dominance of electronics manufacturing was unquestioned, and so Apple had the idea of solving the Mac Portable problem by more or less handing the guts of the Mac Portable over to Sony and asking them to shrink it down to a more acceptable size.

The truth, as someone who worked at Apple during this period told me, is that the geniuses at Sony who built those cameras weren't the ones assigned by the massive Sony bureaucracy to build a laptop for Apple. The PowerBook 100 was smaller and lighter than the other PowerBooks, but it was sadly underpowered. It used a clocked-up version of the same Motorola 68000 processor found in the Mac SE and Mac Portable at a time when Apple was introducing super-fast desktop Macs with processors a couple of generations ahead.

The PowerBook 100 also omitted the floppy disk drive completely, which made sense from a space- and weight-saving perspective. And the PowerBook 100's size and weight did make it a cult machine for those who desired the ultimate in Mac portability. But as I wrote regarding the PowerBook Duo, this was an era when getting your files from point A to point B generally required a floppy disk. Having to tote an external floppy drive around with your laptop negated the point of having a thin and light laptop.

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Product reviews called out the 100 as basically 'a slimmed-down Mac Portable.' That wasn't a compliment. Those other PowerBooks were notable in so many ways. The PowerBook 100 picked up their styling, but it was the goose among ducks: Based on a failure, redesigned in error, and doomed to always be found wanting.

That's half my list! I'll be back in a couple of weeks to start the top ten.

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