Indeed, the laptop’s hardware was otherwise puzzling. The first-generation laptop’s 433-megahertz processor was nearly ten times slower than state-of-the-art machines in the mid-2000s; it was typical of entry-level machines in 1999.11 It had a one-gigabyte storage capacity on solid-state Flash memory, which employees said would be faster and lacked the jammable moving parts of the then-common hard disk drive. However, this storage capacity was miniscule for the burgeoning multimedia-rich computer landscape: whereas one gigabyte was standard for a computer from the mid-1990s, computers in the
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