Retro meets Mac
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The World of Retro meets Mac This is the first post I've tried writing on the AlphaSmart 3000, which is a hell of a name for anything. The keyboard is full-size and quite clicky, so the typing experience is probably better than on the MacBook, which has the usual chiclet keys, which don't offer a great deal of feedback. The style of this thing is straight out of the Apple playbook from the era of the very first iMacs - it's even in one of the translucent colourways of the second generation of those machines; I would guess, although I don't actually remember, that the AlphaSmart was aimed principally at a Mac-based audience. So far so good: the MacBook is off having a cool down, so my notifications are limited to my phone, which I tend to ignore anyway until I've finished what I'm currently doing. We'll see how this works out as a methodology, but it definitely has the appeal of simplicity and focus about it - this particular machine does have a calcu