PowerBook G3 Kanga: Apple’s Shortest-Lived Mac Laptop

1997 was a turbulent year for Apple -- it marked solid technological progress but also financial and leadership troubles. Let’s fix up a laptop that played a quiet but important role in helping to turn the company around. Sources: G3 Kanga prototype photo: “Fastest Laptop Yet,“ Macworld, January 1998. “High-End Notebooks,“ PC Magazine, January 1998. “Help Wanted: Apple CEO,“ MacUser, October 1997. “Amelio Ousted,“ Macworld, September 1997. “Apple names Steve Jobs as interim chief executive,“ InfoWorld, September 22, 1997. “Apple’s Next-Generation Systems,“ Macworld, January 1998. “Apple’s G3 systems speed ahead,“ InfoWorld, December 22, 1997. ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­----------------------------