![]() The look of the eMate in and of itself can be quite the topic of conversation. You can find out all the juicy specs on the eMate by checking out The Apple Museum. Sadly, it saw its demise along with the entire Newton line less than a year later when Steve Jobs scrubbed the entire Newton division on February 27, 1998. $800 was the asking price, and in comparison to laptops of the time, it didn’t seem that expensive. It was marketed as a low-cost laptop for the education market. Due to the kindness of Landon Rogers (who also was kind enough to send me a PowerBook Duo 230 earlier on) of Raleigh, North Carolina, I finally had my hands on an eMate.įirst, a little background on this marvel of technology: The eMate 300 was introduced on my 15th birthday – March 7, 1997. The eMate 300 is a hybrid, a cross between a PDA and a laptop – something that really caught my attention. I had never seen one, let alone knew what it was.įrom the first time I saw a picture of it, something about it intrigued me. One day I stumbled across a machine called the eMate 300. I had vaguely heard about the long lost Newton, but I never looked into it. I had tried using a Palm and a WinCE device, but I thoroughly hated using them. I admit that I had little interest in PDAs, mainly because I didn’t see the point. There’s one gem in the Apple world I hadn’t previously seen or experienced. Granted, you don’t have to be on the Internet or log into your messenger of choice, but it’s still there, and it can tempt you. Something as simple as the joy of writing can be hindered on a modern computer because of distractions, such as the Internet and instant messages. ![]() I spoke of this very thing in an early Welcome to Macintosh article, The Good Old Days of Computing. ![]() There are so many things you can do on a computer that you can easily become lost for focus. In this modern age of computing, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. ![]()
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