11 February 1991 · Release

Macintosh Portable (backlit screen)

Apple released one product on 11 February 1991: Macintosh Portable (backlit screen).

It was the 1st of 5 dated moments the archive holds for 1991, 119 days after the previous one, 15 October 1990.

What Apple released

Macintosh Portable (backlit screen)

Mac · Portable · discontinued 21 October 1991

The Macintosh Portable is the first battery-powered portable computer, designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from September 1989 to October 1991. It was among the first consumer laptop computers to use an active-matrix liquid-crystal display (LCD), which was praised for its crisp image quality and fast response time. The Macintosh Portable was designed to deliver desktop-class performance, resulting in a relatively high price and weight. Although it received favorable reviews, it sold poorly.

Also in 1991

Sources

Macintosh Portable (backlit screen) · Wikipedia

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