The eMate 300 is a personal digital assistant designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer to the education market as a low-cost laptop running the Newton operating system.
[3] The eMate was introduced on March 7, 1997 for US$799 and was discontinued along with the Apple Newton product line and its operating system on February 27, 1998.
In order to achieve its low price, the eMate 300 did not have all the features of the contemporary Newton equivalent, the MessagePad 2000.
[9] The eMate 300 featured a green-colored translucent durable case designed for intense use in classrooms.
Purple, clear, red, and orange colored eMate prototypes were produced for show only and were never put into mass production.