Word: powerbooking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always wins. Whether Jobs can flourish by bargaining with the master is very much open to question. Can Apple survive? Sure, and the spotted owl will probably hang in there too. The Mac remains the most usable, intuitive operating system around (this writer still loyally totes his ultra-light Powerbook Duo on any trip that's going to strand him overnight within crouching distance of a phone jack), and it will never disappear entirely. As long as there are wild-eyed digital artists and idealistic undergrads whose Macs mean to them what Abbey Road did to their parents, there will...
Message to the Macintosh faithful: cuddle up with your PowerBook and see the story that inspired the ad: 1984. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton and a ravishing (and oft-ravished) Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, it's surely what was on Bill Gates' mind when he pulled that Wizard of OS routine at MacWorld, looming disembodied over the crowd while Steve Jobs said the words: Microsoft is our ally. Microsoft has always been our ally. Apple is at war with Netscape. Apple has always been at war with Netscape. The utterance may have drawn a few boos from the crowd...
...third boss since 1993, and with Apple's current problems, "chief executive" isn't a job description, it's a sentence. Gil Amelio, the self-described "transformation manager" from National Semiconductor, lasted only 17 months. He trimmed Apple's confusing product line, slashed costs and pushed new Powerbook and operating-system projects back on schedule. But he couldn't halt Apple's market share slide, from 8% to 4%. The company piled up $1.6 billion in losses, and its stock price fell by half...
...third guy looks up from his PC and says, "Computers!" So half of the pictures either have someone laboriously logging on or, as in Speed 2, hand the villain a Mighty Morphin PowerBook as his tool of terror...
...Matthews Hall resident said her PowerBook 5300 "freezes a lot," even though it is "only a few months old." She said several friends are experiencing problems with their Apple computers as well...