A New Kind Of Powerbook
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This weekend, I went to see the Disney film “Chicken Little.” Over all it was pretty good, but the way that the story line progresses really took me by surprise. The little town of Acorn had quite an adventure.
Much has been said about how the success of this movie will influence the talks between Pixar and Disney. And while I didn’t think the movie was horrible, it certainly didn’t have the finesse of “The Incredibles”.
There was one part of the movie that caught my eye though. If you are anything like me, you can spot a Mac in a movie in an instant. It seems that so many movies have them and the glowing white Apple is so recognizable. Well, I never expected to have my eye jump to a Powerbook in a cartoon. But it did in this movie. No, not an Apple Powerbook, but an Acorn Powerbook. I don’t remember that one in Mactracker.That’s pretty cool.

But perhaps it should look more like this:


November 17th, 2005 at 10:13 pm
Here is a picture of an earlier Acorn workstation!
http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/manufacturer-acorn/acw.html
December 4th, 2005 at 2:54 pm
[…] Since we saw an Acorn Powerbook in Chicken Little, I just wanted to point out the Pear Powerbook that ran in today’s Garfield strip. (Including the little bite taken out of course.) At least the power cord was put in the proper place. […]