Well, it was a big disappointment for those who were expecting something like the PC laptops out there. Also hella expensive. The first Powerbook (which came out shortly after) was much better.

But, you know, I like mine....

(Except it's one of the non-backlit models - the light has to be just right to read it.)

I think that WebTV deserved to be in the top 25. Not a "dishonorable mention."

I think that WebTV deserved to be in the top 25.

My mother will give up her WebTV when you pry it from her cold dead fingers.

Okay, interesting article, but what kind of crazy person lists the best/worst of anything in descending order. You have to read the article backwards to get the proper effect.

Well, it was a big disappointment for those who were expecting something like the PC laptops out there.

Except when it came out there was nothing like the PC laptops out there.

1988 Compaq "Laptop": [link]

1989 also bought the NEC Ultralite, which was wonderfully light, but it was DOS and had a max of 2MB of flash rom and no HD: [link]

Also the same year: The Zenith Minisport: [link] Hardly a competitor.

And the closest is the Compaq LTE, in 1990, IIRC: [link] for the laptop form factor we now know.

It really wasn't much longer before the form factors finally changed.

1998 Compaq "Laptop"

Psst, Daniel, 1990, not 98.

that's called a booboo. (Actually the model was introduced in 1988, BTW)

I was just going by what it said in the museum entry.

I still made a boo boo. It was not my intent to imply nor state that the date was 1998. The mentioning it was 1988 was just a parenthetical aside, I'm sorry if it seemed like an attack. It was intended as an explanation of my typo.

ETA: Sigh.

Psst. Daniel, you did it again.