Apple does not make a portable Macintosh.

Since 2006, portable Macintoshes have used the MagSafe connection for their power cords.

Apple uses such an active matrix display, made by a Japanese company, in its portable Macintosh, but production problems with the screen have limited supply of the computer.

On the other hand, it is the smallest and lightest portable Macintosh available.

At the same time, Apple is widely rumored to be planning to introduce more new desktop and portable Macintoshes based on the Motorola 68040 microprocessor.

The road was long and hard, but Apple Computer Inc.'s portable Macintosh finally completed its journey to computer stores last week.

Apple had been working on the portable Macintosh for four years, said Jean-Louis Gassee, Apple's president for product development.

There is a great deal of pent-up demand for a portable Macintosh.

Because of this, the demand for a true portable Macintosh was not met.

The files were transferred without error, including one called "September Surprise," which many people in the audience assumed referred to the expected announcement of a portable Macintosh.