"...headphone jack which is pretty darn cool!" Oh if you only knew back in 2011...

When you're more amazed by a 19 year old computer than a 3D printer

I wonder how many times he said Pretty Darn Incredible

This review was......dare I say.......pretty darn cool :-)

28 hours of battery life?! Totally nailed it.

I printed off a transparency for an overhead projector for a presentation on this. I also printed off my CV and got a job as a result! One of the reasons it didn't take off is that Apple restricted its sale to the educational market. In the UK in 1997, a journalist complained about this in a newspaper column and as a result Apple opened up sales for a month or two to people without education connections. That's when I bought one and it paid back by helping me to get a job. I still have it and it still works. Jonathan Ive designed it.

Lets play the drinking game, every time he says cool or awesome, take a shot. Still, great review!

the kite wasn't symmetrical because the up and down line didn't meet with the bottom tip OCD TRIGGERED

It wasn't the first translucent device from Apple, in fact, they had this Newton with white transparent plastic a few years after this thing.

Absolutely LOVE these Retro Reviews. Keep up the incredible work man. Subbed

Wow, I was expecting "Eat up Martha" level character recognition, I'm really impressed. Too bad it turned out that people prefer to type on their devices, decades of research basically wasted, I doubt that Apple "shared" it with anyone developing OCR's.

The first Apple Pencil!!

Only thing that could go beyond 8 hours of battery time back in 2007, served me through a bunch of conferences.

Watching this in 2020 after iPad OS 14 introduced Scribble and getting my mind absolutely blown away. Like, the scratch to delete and lasso to select is identical implementation. How many years later???

I just recently tried a handwriting to text converter on a 2018 dell xps 2 in 1 in ms onenote, and the accuracy seemed to be about the same as this thing's... How have they not perfected it after 20 years?! Edit: I've just watched even more and holy shit this thing is incredible

I've used Apple products for 32 years (first computer was the Apple 2), and I remember buying an eMate; it was hellishly expensive, but was a really great device. Certainly a precursor design-wise for the iBook. Thanks for putting this video up; brought back a lot of memories!

Amazing review Quinn. Had me captivated the entire way through.

Really amazing for it's time. Thanks for this - I do enjoy your videos.

You're retro reviews are awesome

Love these retro reviews :)

I remember those back from elementary school. Gosh I miss those days. :)

Very true. While fairly robust and capable for its time, the eMate simply never gained momentum beyond the (mostly) niche grade school education market it had settled into. Seems to me, had Apple offered a larger (15" or 16" screen) version for adults/parents (in see-thru black or grey) the eMate may have become a huge hit for Apple.

But, can it run Crysis?

I bought a new one from eBay this week. Got it. amazing little thing. I use it for my word processing and game dev logs. I do need to service the hinges eventually. Sprayed some WD40 to use it meanwhile.

In theory, do you think it could have been possible to actually do voice phone calls on the Newton if you connected a voice modem to it? Does the Newton have a microphone in it for recording sound? If it does, then in theory Apple could have release software to allow you to use the Newton as a speaker phone of sorts if you connected a voice capable modem to the unit.

Wow this is still futuristic 2 decades later

My primary school had a bunch of these in the library, it was great.

That’s a great OS. The input methods and shortcut functions are pretty darn cool 😉

@super50cent4life Darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, darn, freaking darn.

This is really amazing, i honestly am going to buy one of these!

Amazing technology from the 90s. Great video U Snazzy Guy.

i love this kind of videos! commented, liked, & of course had to favorite it lol

pretty awesome review quinn!

28 hour battery?!? (i don't even get 3 hours on my laptop)

Love the retro theme!

I lol'd at the part when he said "this product was too ahead of its time"

Weird seeing this on my computer with 32GB RAM and a 4.5GHz 6 core CPU.....

So this "assist" button has about the same function as Siri, except something strange happened in these 14 years that made logical commands a "breakthrough"... No Apple, Siri was not a breakthrough.

blast from the past !

i love how the writing recognition works better than some modern writing recognition. Pretty darn amazing! XD

Wow, this was quite amazing actually! Wouldn't mind using one!

my elementary school had these and issued them to us to take home and such.

when you were writing on the screen the background reminds me of the old note app on iPhone before iOS 7

Hows the keyboard? Is it suitable for long periods of writing/comfortable? Does it match up to the older style ThinkPad keyboard?

Wow this was indeed literally awesome!

Thats sounds like a really darn cool computer. Im slightly jealous of its touch screen and transparency and im on a 2015 HP.

the funny thing is my small private school when i was younger bought like 300 of these and each student got one i still have mine to this day

I have two of these, they are pretty cool little devices. It's to bad they were cancelled after less than a year on the market.

this emate looks pretty cool!

This was pretty darn incredible!

wonderful reiview gave me alot of info on my emate

I'm not gonna lie this is pretty freaking awesome!

This is one of the cooles things I've ever seen, and way ahead of its time;o

I'm definitely getting one now! It'll go great with my iBook clamshell :).

Dude they got so much right with this. Even with the left hand pen holder.

Was given one of these back in 02 or 03.. wish I'd hung onto it lol

new intro is sick

@watermelencan I don't have the slighest idea what you're conveying.

i was wondering why the screen appears to come in two different light formats. one in pure black and gray, and the other is black and bright blueish. i want the black and gray version because it does does not emit bright lighting. i am trying to buy one on the internet but want to get the proper one. do you have any suggestions.

Should I buy one for $35? I found an offer.

Cool, thanks for the video.

Pretty darn incredible !

If I had a dollar for every time he said "pretty darn cool" I could trademark "Pretty Darn Cool Inc."

To this time; insanely great!

it was also a failure because the ribbon cable that joins to the board snaps off from the monitor

I love these retro reviews, please do more! This thing is impressive for the day it was around, but omg it looks kinda sluggish in the OS ... X_X

I'm not sure what the "Apple printers funny funny" is all about. One thing that was great was AppleTalk, which made it a lot easier to connect. It was kind of like Bonjour before wireless existed. It was a relief to find AppleTalk instead of connecting a printer to a Windows network (or use one of the countless apps made for that purpose).

Do more of these retro reviews!:)

Pretty darn cool review guy 😎

If they make a faster version today I'd totally buy it! Keep everything the way it is just put in a faster processor and bigger memory!

all of the features you mentioned exiasted on the original Netwon from 1993. it was wel ahead of its time

HOLY SHIT MAN IM SORRY DO YOU WANT A COOKIE FOR BEING SO DAMN AWESOME BECAUSE YOUR HANDWRITING IS BETTER. WOW MAN YOUR MY HERO!

Very nice, It's AMAZING !! thank you !

You didn't need the pen if you didn't want to - your fingernail would work just as well. I used this thing as a postgraduate, and it was ideal for conferences and such. Got quite a bit of attention, too.

Awesome! Shared with the Apple Community on MyAppleSpace > Launchpad > Mobile > Newton

Small correction. If a computer had a modem even back in 1997 it could send faxes as long as it had the right software. Windows 95 even came with Microsoft Fax.

Oh wow, this thing is amazing.

to sum up everything for you... apple freaks will say "apple did something ahead of their time and they invented it!" pc freaks will say "apple doesnt invent anything they just steal it from others!" tech people will say "apple did invent some things but not as much as people think the reality is apple licenses products to use and pairs them with other products from other companies and themselves and makes a good product that does what its supposed to. however they dont venture too far from the pack because in the end apple is a business and going slightly above competitors can bring in more money than taking a chance on something that might fail." the tech guy has one set of lungs but he is correct.

This had features that the galaxy note has now ! That's amazing .

Wow, this is pretty mind blowing. iPad Pro stylus actually can make sense.

We are only a few years away from this video being as old to us as the laptop was in the video

It's sad that they went from this to the iBook clamshell. This was so much better!

I had one of these as a kid!

great job with your presentation of this product. you're the best! wish you could get paid more to do more retro reviews, you need your own tv show on the new youtube channel haha

Damn, I need this for my essays.

Apple has always been the trail blazers of the tech world. I'd be interested to see how far along we would be today with technology if apple had never come to exist causing other companies to try and meet the standards that apple had set with their revolutionary products.

thats pretty DARN amazing!

pretty darn cool

After people purchased the Newton and many people spent their life savings building companies to support the Newton Steve Jobs without any warning pulled the plug.Men that are successful are never ashamed at what they do.

That's amazing!! you can see that the iphone notes app has the same fonts and lines. They should remake this app for the ipad, with the handwriting capabilities!

that is just awesome

Pretty darn COOL!

happy to be a subscriber

If you have an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, you can get "MyStylus" which is an iOS keyboard (so it could be used across iOS) that has pretty much ALL the handwriting recognition features of this Newton, and more.

Amazing!

This thing is essentially the starting point for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Pencil! Wow.

Wow!! They should so start making this again (and update the software of course), if they did I think it would sell.

Would love to own one of these

The screens quality was really good for that age.

Hahaha, I still have one of these still in its box, have not used it since 1999 or 2000 when i got the iBook, but i just went downstairs to see if it still works, had to pt it on the charger, but she still fires up. Sadly i dont remember how to use it