[Cockbrand]

The clamshell iBook had one very distinctive disadvantage: when the laptop world had finally arrived at a default display resolution of at least 1024x768, the iBook had an 800x600 display. This forced web designers (in a time before widely supported CSS or even responsive design) to design for the smaller viewport of the iBook instead of being able to take advantage of the higher-res displays of the rest of the world.

[qingcharles]

Peter Gabriel gave me his in ~2000 because I needed a crappy Mac to test our music streaming and downloading on. I liked the design, but was very underwhelmed by the hardware and software. In that way, it was good for testing. I remember it quickly ended up in a closet with some big elastic bands pushing something onto the trackpad button, since there was an online game at the time called "Hold The Button" with a leaderboard and we wanted to be #1.

[pstuart]

Any more interesting tidbits to share about working with the man?

[qingcharles]

He used AOL (it was all still installed lol). He's a nice guy. His parties at his studio in Box were amazing. The studio is amazing because it's built on top of the mill pond and the floors are wood while it's in use, but then they pop off and it's glass above the water. I think his Up album is massively underrated.

[jnaina]

Peter Gabriel's "Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ" is his seminal work, IMHO. Just an amazing piece of work. Bought the original CD in 1989, and got the SACD version recently. get goosebumps when playing the tracks at DSF64 resolution via roon. the track "A different drum", is truly inspired.

[schappim]

Ha! That 800x600 screen was the first thing I remembered about it, that the composite (or s-video) out…

[geerlingguy]

It had a weird/custom TRRS adapter, I believe, to get analog video out.

[schappim]

Composite video out like an early Raspberry Pi

[geerlingguy]

Yes but the actual connector was a skinnier jack that was common on other devices like Camcorders, iirc.