Macintosh Portable (1989)
(Source: deskthority.net)
The Macintosh name may have beaten Lisa, but it didn’t take long to crank out an aspirational machine that needed a little time to bake. The Mac Portable used a trackball instead of a cursor, boasted an LCD screen and of course, portability. That is if you consider 16-pounds to be portable. Some call that a bicep curl. While it was less than the Lisa, it was still $7,300, accounting for inflation around $14,000 today. The Portable was one of the first machines to use a rechargeable battery, but the way Apple installed it caused problems. Once a user could no longer recharge the battery, the machine was dead without repair. You couldn’t even plug it in to use it.
