Three cheers for the delightfully personal PowerBook 1400<article>
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In its recent ad for the MacBook Air, Apple demonstrated how much people loved it by showing the ways in which people had personalized theirs with stickers. And although my current 2008 MacBook Pro is stickerless, my previous
MacBook and
iBook were covered in them, so I get it.</p><p>
Still, this personalization of the MacBook Air is very much
despite Apple, not thanks to it. In 1996, however, Apple introduced a Mac that you were very definitely
encouraged to customize: the PowerBook 1400 series with its BookCover feature. Part of the plain black lid slid off, and you could replace it instead with a piece of clear plastic under which you could position your own designs.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2872814/three-cheers-for-the-delightfully-personal-powerbook-1400-with-bookcover.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Three cheers for the delightfully personal PowerBook 1400
