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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're gonna continue our look at the Apple Newton message pad 2100 if you remember the 2100 is the last Apple Newton that ever came out that was in this form factor and of course Apple Newton was the first mobile device that Apple ever came out with and it certainly set the pace for the mobile devices that we use today so it's really interesting to take a look at this old device and see how far we've come and and kind of the technology that this brought to the table so in this video I'm gonna take a look at the hardware of the device and kind of give you a tour of of the exterior at least and then the next video we're going to go over the software here in the front says message pad 2100 with the old-school Apple logo with the kind of multicolored rainbow thing here I don't know if this is anything here it could be a microphone but I'll have to look into that it's probably a microphone comb over to the side we've not much on the side here except for a power button if you flip it one time it'll turn on the device if you hold it down it will turn on the backlight and the backlight on this thing is horrendous but at least it's still work so I can show it to you in the in the next video if we go over to the top we have some interesting things to talk about here we have a stylus silo and because the Apple Newton has such a large screen it requires a very large stylus and the stylus that came with this particular unit definitely isn't the original it says nabisco on it probably came in a cereal box or something and it doesn't really fit very well inside of the stylus silo it's not supposed to hang out like that I'm sure it's supposed to click in and click out something that's really interesting is that it has a built-in stylus holder imagine that it's a really natural way to interact with your device if you can just kind of pick up the stylus and start writing on the pad so that's a really interesting addition that I discovered just yesterday and it folds right back into place here on the center we have a flap that reveals the connector for the computer and this is uses serial connection so I can't connect this to my computer most people can't because they don't have a serial connection here's for the AC power adapter to charge the batteries if you're using rechargeable batteries that is or to run it off of wall power if you don't have batteries with you here's an IR D a port here we have a little bit of wear and tear of course it's an 11 year old device over to the side here we have two PCMCIA slots and the first one is empty it just has a dummy card in here and I should mention that you can use a lot of different PCMCIA ace cards with this device you can use modems and network cards and wireless cards there are even Wi-Fi drivers that have come out through various user groups that are online right now for the Apple Newton and over here we have actually some flash memory guess how much flash memory here I'll turn it over how much do you think how much flash memory you think they fit on here it sounds like it just turned on well I'll tell you 4 megabytes yeah 4 megabytes on this massive piece of plastic and it's incredible because today we have micro sd right so you can fit 16 thousand megabytes or around 16 gigabytes on this little fingernail sized chip whereas it took you know something this big to carry 4 megabytes 8 megabytes 16 megabytes and it probably didn't even go up to that high of a capacity but out of the box the Newton comes with or the at least this model the 2100 comes with this this expansion over here on the side is the battery and unfortunately the piece broke off this afternoon when I was playing with it so in order to get the battery out now I kind of have to you know shake it a little bit and once you get when you take the battery out it's kind of this this case for batteries so right now there are rechargeable batteries in here you probably can't read that but you can use plain old double-a batteries if you prefer to do that so let me slide this back in and continue on the tour on the bottom there's nothing but I think this notch is probably for some sort of dock that's sold with the Apple Newton if we flip over to the back we have nothing much except for these tabs and I'll show you what they're for in a second and we have some rubber feet so that when you place it on a table they kind of stay is solid and it doesn't move around that much let me show you the top here we have the Newton Technology logo and we have a speaker there's a lot of sound that goes on on this device you'll see that once I start to use it so let me show you the screen to open the screen protector you slide this to the right and I think the screen protector works quite well because this 11-year old screen is in fantastic shape I don't see many scratches of course the user may not or the previous owner may have not use this device that much but even so this is a really good protective mechanism for this large 6.1 inch screen and I'd like to mention that the resolution of this is actually the same as the Apple iPhone but of course this only displays 16 shades of black so it's quite quite different story so we have 320 across and 480 down it's a pixel density of about 100 and we can remove this flap or this cover just by flicking up this little lever here and it slides right off and when you do that it kind of leaves this uneven look to the device and I don't think you'd want to carry it around like this so let's snap it back in place and I mentioned the grooves in the back and what that allows you to do is wrap it around to the back and snap it in place and it doesn't affect how the device arrests on a table because it stalls a little bit of clearance because of these legs so it still stays kind of firm and steady and that's pretty much it for the hardware on the Apple Newton message pad 2100 in the next video we're going to take a look at the software on the device all the included programs how the operating system actually works it's taken me a long time to figure out how to use it I'll be honest but once you learn it there are so many little things that makes the Apple Newton just a brilliant device so intuitive to work with so more on the Apple Newton coming very soon