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

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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.

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G3 Kanga prototype photo: https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/q2p472/kanga_dvt_unit/
"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.

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