I’ve been using laptops for nearly 15 years now, from an original IBM PC Convertible that ran off of two 3.5” floppies (and no hard drive) to a PowerBook G4 17”, with a rogues’ gallery of Compaqs, Dells, and HPs in the mix. And, yes, there were a few in there that I really fell in love with, like the Compaq Contura Aero 4/33 (with a nice display-mounted trackball), some random HP Omnibook (that survived a 5’ drop onto concrete at DFW airport), and the tiny HP Compaq TC1100 tablet PC (underpowered but so deliciously small). But the one that has stood head and shoulders above the rest has always been the Apple PowerBook 12” 867Mhz.  Read more …