EMate 300

Features

The eMate 300 featured a 6.8" 480x320 resolution 16-shade grayscale display with a backlight, stylus pen, keyboard, infrared port, and standard Macintosh serial/LocalTalk ports.

The keyboard was roughly 85% the size of a standard "full size" keyboard.

Power came from built-in rechargeable batteries, which lasted up to 28 hours on full charge. In order to achieve its low price, the eMate 300 did not have all the features of the contemporary Newton equivalent, the MessagePad 2000. The eMate used a 25 MHz ARM 710a RISC processor and had less memory than the MessagePad 2000 which used a StrongARM 110 RISC processor and was more expandable. However, the eMate 300 was faster than the previous MessagePad 130.{{cite magazine

Expansion

Unlike the MessagePad line, the eMate 300 featured an internal memory expansion slot.

In addition to the expansion slot, the eMate also featured a single non-CardBus PCMCIA slot. It could be used for a number of different cards, including modems, Ethernet cards, wireless cards, bluetooth cards, and flash memory (linear and ATA/Compact Flash).

Design

Apple designer Jony Ive was assigned to the company's Industrial Design Group in 1992 and created the design for the eMate 300, as well as the smaller MessagePad models prior. The eMate 300 featured a green-colored translucent durable case designed for intense use in classrooms.

Timeline

Notes

References

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