Retro Review: Apple eMate 300 Newton TabletTop
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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"...headphone jack which is pretty darn cool!"
Oh if you only knew back in 2011...
Headphone jack was a nice addition for the eMate since the other Newtons didn't have that.
When you're more amazed by a 19 year old computer than a 3D printer
They called it a clam shell, it was more like a toilet seat!
This review was......dare I say.......pretty darn cool :-)
This guy is pretty cool. I'm just messing with him. Not trolling
I wonder how many times he said Pretty Darn Incredible
But the eMate is just pretty darn incredible.
Take a shot when he ssys it again *don't*
the kite wasn't symmetrical because the up and down line didn't meet with the bottom tip
OCD TRIGGERED
Watching this in 2020 after iPad OS 14 introduced Scribble and getting my mind absolutely blown away. Like, the scratch to delete and lasso to select is identical implementation.
How many years later???
It wasn't the first translucent device from Apple, in fact, they had this Newton with white transparent plastic a few years after this thing.
I printed off a transparency for an overhead projector for a presentation on this. I also printed off my CV and got a job as a result! One of the reasons it didn't take off is that Apple restricted its sale to the educational market. In the UK in 1997, a journalist complained about this in a newspaper column and as a result Apple opened up sales for a month or two to people without education connections. That's when I bought one and it paid back by helping me to get a job. I still have it and it still works. Jonathan Ive designed it.
honestly if my school had used these instead of the.. 8-bit, 4-line LCDs right above the keyboard, essentially BASIC machine though in text-only mode, for "laptops" for typing up in non-computer classes, it would've been great. especially the original concept of having each student keep one and have all their work on there.
the ease of multimedia documents that this looks like it would've enabled would've been fantastic. and the newtonOS seems to work much nicer on this than the early gen messagepads.
Lets play the drinking game, every time he says cool or awesome, take a shot.
Still, great review!
He always says "that's pretty damn cool if you ask me" or "it was pretty freaking incredible" or something like those
thanks, you gave ma an extreme hangover
Just too much cool to be had with the Newton, which is why it is the only Apple device I ever bought brand new with a Apple Student Loan. :D
28 hours of battery life?! Totally nailed it.
Wow, I was expecting "Eat up Martha" level character recognition, I'm really impressed. Too bad it turned out that people prefer to type on their devices, decades of research basically wasted, I doubt that Apple "shared" it with anyone developing OCR's.
Nice Simpsons ref!!
In theory, do you think it could have been possible to actually do voice phone calls on the Newton if you connected a voice modem to it? Does the Newton have a microphone in it for recording sound? If it does, then in theory Apple could have release software to allow you to use the Newton as a speaker phone of sorts if you connected a voice capable modem to the unit.
Only thing that could go beyond 8 hours of battery time back in 2007, served me through a bunch of conferences.
28 hour battery?!?
(i don't even get 3 hours on my laptop)
i use mine as a desktop replacement BECAUSE i can only get 1 1/2 hours doing what its meant to do (eyeroll)
yeah, 28 hours of doing nothing practically. i can hold my breath that long if I was doing as little.. But the software IS interesting.And so is the presentation.
The first Apple Pencil!!
newton pad was 1st
Weird seeing this on my computer with 32GB RAM and a 4.5GHz 6 core CPU.....
World Known What about reading your review of your PC on this Newton?
But, can it run Crysis?
no
I bought a new one from eBay this week. Got it. amazing little thing. I use it for my word processing and game dev logs. I do need to service the hinges eventually. Sprayed some WD40 to use it meanwhile.
How much money was it?
+Nathanator 60.
+Arakmatzu cool
Very true. While fairly robust and capable for its time, the eMate simply never gained momentum beyond the (mostly) niche grade school education market it had settled into. Seems to me, had Apple offered a larger (15" or 16" screen) version for adults/parents (in see-thru black or grey) the eMate may have become a huge hit for Apple.
I just recently tried a handwriting to text converter on a 2018 dell xps 2 in 1 in ms onenote, and the accuracy seemed to be about the same as this thing's... How have they not perfected it after 20 years?!
Edit: I've just watched even more and holy shit this thing is incredible
Wow this is still futuristic 2 decades later
@super50cent4life Darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, freaking darn.
I've used Apple products for 32 years (first computer was the Apple 2), and I remember buying an eMate; it was hellishly expensive, but was a really great device. Certainly a precursor design-wise for the iBook. Thanks for putting this video up; brought back a lot of memories!
I remember those back from elementary school. Gosh I miss those days. :)
I see more use in this newton than in an iPad Pro with Keyboard and pencil, honestly! So sad they did not continue in making those, would buy one straigt away when it had a pebble time like color reflective and support for modern formats like HTML5, PDF etc.
So this "assist" button has about the same function as Siri, except something strange happened in these 14 years that made logical commands a "breakthrough"... No Apple, Siri was not a breakthrough.
the funny thing is my small private school when i was younger bought like 300 of these and each student got one i still have mine to this day
My primary school had a bunch of these in the library, it was great.
I have two of these, they are pretty cool little devices. It's to bad they were cancelled after less than a year on the market.
Should I buy one for $35? I found an offer.
Look up the hinge fix, or better yet...
www.pda-soft.de/en/hardware/emate/disassembly/disassembly.html
The eMate hinge pops a spring poking through a display wire over time. Putting in a washer fixes that, which is also talked about here: www.inventors-emporium.co.uk/pages/newton-emate-hinge.html
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i love how the writing recognition works better than some modern writing recognition. Pretty darn amazing! XD
I lol'd at the part when he said "this product was too ahead of its time"
when you were writing on the screen the background reminds me of the old note app on iPhone before iOS 7
Dude they got so much right with this. Even with the left hand pen holder.
If they make a faster version today I'd totally buy it! Keep everything the way it is just put in a faster processor and bigger memory!
my elementary school had these and issued them to us to take home and such.
Small correction. If a computer had a modem even back in 1997 it could send faxes as long as it had the right software. Windows 95 even came with Microsoft Fax.
Thats sounds like a really darn cool computer. Im slightly jealous of its touch screen and transparency and im on a 2015 HP.
all of the features you mentioned exiasted on the original Netwon from 1993. it was wel ahead of its time
It's sad that they went from this to the iBook clamshell. This was so much better!
Almost every modem of that days was a fax modem and could send/receive faxes as well, it just took to have a software to generate the page (TIFF image that is) or show the received page. Not a big deal.
I'm not sure what the "Apple printers funny funny" is all about. One thing that was great was AppleTalk, which made it a lot easier to connect. It was kind of like Bonjour before wireless existed. It was a relief to find AppleTalk instead of connecting a printer to a Windows network (or use one of the countless apps made for that purpose).
You didn't need the pen if you didn't want to - your fingernail would work just as well. I used this thing as a postgraduate, and it was ideal for conferences and such. Got quite a bit of attention, too.
to sum up everything for you... apple freaks will say "apple did something ahead of their time and they invented it!" pc freaks will say "apple doesnt invent anything they just steal it from others!" tech people will say "apple did invent some things but not as much as people think the reality is apple licenses products to use and pairs them with other products from other companies and themselves and makes a good product that does what its supposed to. however they dont venture too far from the pack because in the end apple is a business and going slightly above competitors can bring in more money than taking a chance on something that might fail." the tech guy has one set of lungs but he is correct.
If you have an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, you can get "MyStylus" which is an iOS keyboard (so it could be used across iOS) that has pretty much ALL the handwriting recognition features of this Newton, and more.
Yep, and that is because 1) Newton pioneered the technology 2) they've had 20 years to make more features. :D
it was also a failure because the ribbon cable that joins to the board snaps off from the monitor
correct it's the hinge that causes the issue I like the newton message pad 100 still the best version of the newton
@watermelencan I don't have the slighest idea what you're conveying.
We are only a few years away from this video being as old to us as the laptop was in the video
Wow!! They should so start making this again (and update the software of course), if they did I think it would sell.
Hahaha, I still have one of these still in its box, have not used it since 1999 or 2000 when i got the iBook, but i just went downstairs to see if it still works, had to pt it on the charger, but she still fires up. Sadly i dont remember how to use it
My MessagePad 110 (Newton OS 1.2.00) has decent writing recognition, too. Definitely not as good as the eMate's, though. (It sometimes mixes up lowercase d and lowecase b)
Wow, this is pretty mind blowing. iPad Pro stylus actually can make sense.
If I had a dollar for every time he said "pretty darn cool" I could trademark "Pretty Darn Cool Inc."
The screens quality was really good for that age.
Apple has always been the trail blazers of the tech world. I'd be interested to see how far along we would be today with technology if apple had never come to exist causing other companies to try and meet the standards that apple had set with their revolutionary products.
This thing is essentially the starting point for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Pencil! Wow.
it's a STYLUS, like the ds one from nintendo!
DESOFFICIAL1 I have nightmares about the DS stylus
Awesome! Shared with the Apple Community on MyAppleSpace > Launchpad > Mobile > Newton
Amazing technology from the 90s.
Great video U Snazzy Guy.
This had features that the galaxy note has now ! That's amazing .
After people purchased the Newton and many people spent their life savings building companies to support the Newton Steve Jobs without any warning pulled the plug.Men that are successful are never ashamed at what they do.
That's amazing!! you can see that the iphone notes app has the same fonts and lines. They should remake this app for the ipad, with the handwriting capabilities!
OS X on the Macintosh also adopted the "Poof!" animation from the Newton for a while too.
Was given one of these back in 02 or 03.. wish I'd hung onto it lol
When I Was 8 On 1984 I Got An First Ever Macintosh Now I Selled It Since 1998
Anyone notice that iPad’s Scribble is VERY similar to this?
"Computers can be had for about the same price which would be much more powerfull than this"
back in 97 we also had the PalmPilot that Apple obviously copied for the iPhone.
if we would redesign it, it would be a great note app!
The iPad keyboard is a little bit boring and you can't do such amazing things.
That’s a great OS. The input methods and shortcut functions are pretty darn cool 😉
Einstein Newton OS emulator is bringing this OS to current devices.
This is one of the cooles things I've ever seen, and way ahead of its time;o
And Steve Jobs never realized how powerful the Newton OS can be and how it influenced the mobile standards
Really amazing for it's time. Thanks for this - I do enjoy your videos.
blast from the past !
I'm not gonna lie this is pretty freaking awesome!
HOLY SHIT MAN IM SORRY DO YOU WANT A COOKIE FOR BEING SO DAMN AWESOME BECAUSE YOUR HANDWRITING IS BETTER. WOW MAN YOUR MY HERO!
To this time; insanely great!
You could Chang all of the ports and hardware with a different screen and it would be epic
Seriously? Why didn't Apple implement this text editing capability on the iPad? It's really cool. I've been looking for that for a long time! I didn't know Apple already had such software.
My GlobalVillage TelePort fax modem from 1991 or so on a Mac SE could fax directly.
A mixture of Newton Message pad and the iBook G3 Clamshell.
why was it on sale only 11 months ? that is insane machine for work... just make a major update...
Well the handwriting recognition seems lightyears better then the Apple Newton MessagePad 100.
They need to implement newton's hand writing recognition on iPad !
I'm definitely getting one now! It'll go great with my iBook clamshell :).
damn . it's 15 years old devices n its awesome
We had eMates in second grade at my farmtown elementary school =)
Hows the keyboard? Is it suitable for long periods of writing/comfortable? Does it match up to the older style ThinkPad keyboard?
My grandpa gave me one of these he got it early before it came out when he was a teacher and he cant remember the password is there a way to reset it we looked at all the manuals and got nothing
You said that the house phone could pick up the sound and call cab modern phones do that
This is really amazing, i honestly am going to buy one of these!
Tim, Remake this to
eMate 301 Newton 2016
I want all of this on the iPad notes app!!!
Love the retro theme!
'THE MAGICAL DOOR OF EVERYTHING'.
this emate looks pretty cool!
Damn, I need this for my essays.
Would love to own one of these
the newton was pretty much trying to be an iPad with ChatGPT 6 without the technology to support it.
This had better multitasking capabilities than the iPad.
Try writing "Beat up Martin".
oscarmejiavera beatmet up Martin