The PowerBook 170 was also 6.8 pounds, which was seen as impressive at the time. The 16-inch MacBook Pro today is 4.8 pounds. The 14-inch MacBook Pro is 3.5 pounds.

The PowerBook 500 series, code-named “Blackbird,” was Apple’s first major PowerBook redesign. I know people who loved those laptops, though I never had one–and in my opinion, ...

The PowerBook G4 performs as you’d expect a G4 Mac to perform: it’s fast when using applications that take advantage of AltiVec, the G4’s Velocity Engine subprocessor, ...

Apple Computer kicked the speeds of its Powerbook portable computers up another notch this week. Not only will new models be faster, but they'll also be able to act more like a replacement for a ...

COMMENTARY--When I read about Apple's new PowerBook G4 (PBG4), I was initially nonplussed. It seemed to be a straightforward and unexcitingevolution of its predecessor.

To compare the performance of the PowerBook G4 project, it was put against a single Intel Xeon Silver 4216 core clocked at 3.2GHz. The benchmark resulted in a test time for a query of 26.5 seconds ...

With an external keyboard and mouse you can use your Powerbook with the display closed and an external monitor as if it were a desktop computer. Here's how: Make sure the computer is plugged in to ...

In August of 1995, Apple launched a computer that would change the fate of the world: the PowerBook 5300. This 5.9lb fusion of black polycarbonate and capacitors had a modest debut, but little did ...

For Apple Computer, releasing a G5 PowerBook continues to be a weighty issue. Apple customers have been waiting for the company to deliver a PowerBook driven by the G5 chip for some time. The more ...