Featured Image Credit: Mrwhosetheboss/YouTube
It can sometimes be hard to get your head around just how long some tech companies have actually been producing devices.
After all, we all know that Apple has been around for decades, slowly building itself up into the juggernaut that it is today, but it's equally a little challenging to really remember what it was like before unveiling the iPhone.
Well, a really good way to pull back that curtain and go down memory lane is to actually look at the old devices that Apple made, which is just what tech YouTuber Mrwhosetheboss did in mid-2023.
He made a video showcasing every single MacBook Apple had ever made until that point, starting way back in 1989 with the Macintosh Portable.
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This was almost the size of a desktop computer, complete with a carrying handle, and had a fold-up screen that was dwarfed by all of the plastic in the casing.
It's aesthetically amazing, but adjusted for inflation it would apparently have been priced at a staggering $18,000 today.
So, it was no surprise that the next laptop in the lineup was way smaller and cheaper - the PowerBook 100.
This was one of those quantum leaps that tech companies take, jumping from a massive, bulky and hulking computer that barely qualifies as portable, to something that much more closely resembles a modern laptop.
A there are still some parts that are very different to the MacBooks of 2024. For one thing, this is still from the era when computers used trackballs instead of touchpads.
Given that the PowerBook 100 was more powerful than the Macintosh Portable, the most impressive part was that it also cut the price down to $5,000 (inflation-adjusted).
Apple then spent a good few years innovating on the PowerBook format, making its laptops better and better each time.
The first iBook arrived in 1999 and looked completely unique, all white plastic and colorful accents, which ushered in another phase for the MacBook's development.
Only in 2005 did the name 'MacBook' actually start to get used, with new models that looked really close to their modern-day equivalents, and the MacBook Pro arrived the same year.
The next revolution came in 2008 when Steve Jobs opened a thin manila envelope and took out a full MacBook Air - the first of Apple's incredibly thin laptops.
From 2008, the laptops really started to be recognisable in the extreme, and the changes between laptops from then onward are pretty subtle, although it's still fascinating to look at the difference as the video continues.
