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The first, known as the "Clamshell", was inspired by the design of Apple's popular iMac line at the time. It was a significant departure from previous portable computer designs due to its shape, bright colors, incorporation of a handle into the casing, lack of a display closing latch, lack of a hinged cover over the external ports and built-in ...
The clamshell form factor is based on the hinged design of the clam. The clamshell form factor is most closely associated with the cell phone market, as Motorola used to have a trademark on the term "flip phone", [1] but the term "flip phone" has become genericized to be used more frequently than "clamshell" in colloquial speech. [citation needed]
Apple's head of design Jony Ive and the rest of the design team developed sketches for a distinctive, all-in-one computer that was to be a legacy-free PC focused on ease of use and internet connectivity. The design team made the new computer colorful and translucent, built around a cathode-ray tube display wrapped in a curved plastic case.
4. Pink Lady/Cripps Pink. The Pink Lady/Cripps Pink apple isn’t a new variety — it was created back in the 1970s by British-Australian horticulturalist John Cripps, who had the idea to cross ...
Taligent Inc. (a portmanteau of "talent" and "intelligent") [3] [4] was an American software company. Based on the Pink object-oriented operating system conceived by Apple in 1988, Taligent Inc. was incorporated as an Apple/IBM partnership in 1992, and was dissolved into IBM in 1998.
The iMac G4 [a] is an all-in-one personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from January 2002 to August 2004. The computer is comprised of a hemispheric base that holds the computer components, including the PowerPC G4 processor, with a flatscreen liquid-crystal display (LCD) mounted above.
The Grid Compass is a family of laptop computers introduced in 1982 by the Grid Systems Corporation.The design for the Compass was rendered by Bill Moggridge.Owing to its clamshell design—the first in a portable computer—some historians credit the original Compass as the first ever laptop.
'Pink Pearl' apples are generally medium-sized, with a conical shape. They are named for the color of their flesh, which is a bright rosy pink sometimes streaked or mottled with white. They have a translucent, yellow-green skin, and a crisp, juicy flesh with tart to sweet-tart taste. 'Pink Pearl' apples ripen in late August to mid-September.