(In fact, Apple had pulled off this trick once before, with its original PowerBook introducing the now ubiquitous basic recipe for a laptop-hinged screen occupying the same footprint as the base, keyboard above a centered pointing device, and so on-but arguably this was just as seminal a moment.) Christopher PhinĢ001’s TiBook, however-so nicknamed because its chassis was made from titanium, and the iBook had been introduced a couple of years before-was a radical reinterpretation of what a laptop would look like, which would stick for years to come. ![]() Put it next to the 2008 15-inch MacBook Pro I’m typing this on, and they look more similar than they look different. To modern eyes, it might just look like a pretty generic laptop. Then one day, realization dawned: the only reason they seemed so dull to me was that everything since had copied them. I remember spending a lot of time in my early teenage years being disappointed that films, books, music and comedy I’d been told were staggeringly innovative and utterly amazing actually struck me as lame and clichéd when I made time to watch, read and listen to them.
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