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It's with great wailing and gnashing of teeth that we read the final press release from Clone War victim Vertegri Research, confirming that they are shutting down. Vertegri, you may recall, made the imediaEngine, the first and only Powerbook clone. Well, sort of. It was portable the same way the original Mac Portable was portable. Call it "luggable." Vertegri got around Apple's "No Powerbook Clones" policy by basing their design around a desktop motherboard stuffed into an oversize laptop case. It had some great advantages, like a HUGE active-matrix screen, a 200 MHz 604e (still faster than any Powerbook runs), and a removeable/wireless keyboard. Of course, its biggest drawback was its lack of a battery-- you plugged it in like any desktop Mac.

We at AtAT feel that the imediaEngine deserves one last mention, because while it looked strange in the magazine photos (and there's a photo at Vertegri's website), it was downright weird in real life. We don't mean that in a bad way, either. It was just very, very striking, with its brushed aluminum and leather and its sheer SIZE. Think BIG. As I remarked at the time, seeing it for the first time made three letters pop into my head: W, T, and F.

We'll miss Vertegri, because they brought one of the most different and original Mac clone designs to the party.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 9/23/97 episode:

September 23, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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  • 14: T-Minus 89 & Counting... (9/23/97)   Faithful viewer Brian Freeman made an interesting suggestion via our Feedback page: "Scully canned Jobs and took us on down the road. We didn't like it much. Let's give Steve his 90 days. Then if it isn't right, we'll break out the Macintosh IIVX's and blow a hole in him!...

  • 15: IMax, UMAX, We All Max...(9/23/97)   Following the recent Clone Wars, only one of the Big Three compatibles manufacturers is still left standing-- Power Computing was bought out, and Motorola got out while the getting was good, leaving UMAX as the sole survivor...

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