"Tämä palvelin käyttää graafista 16-bittistä lEEt/OS-käyttöliittymää. Järjestelmä on yhdellä 1,44 megatavun 3,5 tuuman levykkeellä. Tämä sivusto on kiintolevyllä. BBS on 360 kilotavun 5,25 tuuman levykkeellä. Vieraile myös BBS-purkissa portissa 486 (telnet)."
Translated:
"Server uses a graphic lEEt/OS-user interface. The system is on a single 1.44 MB 3.5 floppy disk. This site is on a hard drive and the BBS is on a 360 KB 5.25 inch floppy disk. Visit the BBS on port 486 (telnet)."
This was an awesome machine with a great architecture, but unfortunately it didn't have legs [1] for the long run. The G5 processor architecture was in the end too power hungry, especially for the laptop space - with the fabled "PowerBook G5" never arriving.
We're still waiting for the 3GHz G5 Steve promised at that keynote "in 12 months"...
Much of the failure to get it into PowerBooks is probably attributable to the same issue as the mythical 3GHz models - IBM's struggle to die-shrink the things.
I'm not sure the G5 would have ever made it in a laptop even if they did get the die size down. POWER4 is just big and hungry. It was big and hungry in the server space, and it was big and hungry in the workstation space. It just wasn't designed for the constraints of a mobile implementation.
The rumour I heard at the time, which I believe, is that PA Semi was actually in the running for the "next" PowerBook line based on some evolution of the PWRficient PA6T. Then Apple went Intel and bought them out later, so we'll probably never know.
This is mostly for personal use, but I do have a sole proprietorship too and wouldn't have an issue using it for "real business".