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It’s kind of remarkable there weren’t more issues than that considering Lombard was their very first “New World” portable, “PowerBook1,1”! Even the OG toilet-seat iBook comes afterward as “PowerBook2,1”: https://macintoshgarden.org/apple-powermac-line-of-computers...


That New World switch is such an Earth-shaking change and it’s basically forgotten. It was Steve Jobs’ first big software transition before OS X was even decided on as the future of the company.




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