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Ten Years of Apple PowerBooks

Posted by timothy on from the just-getting-started dept.

ckd writes: "The PowerBook Zone has a short interview with Bruce Gee talking about the evolution of the PowerBook design since the first PowerBooks. (Bruce was the PowerBook Product Manager back then.) Hearken back to the days when 20MB was a good-sized drive in a portable machine! Yes, the PowerBook 100 was not the first 'portable Mac' -- but it was the first to bear the name PowerBook." And of all the (handful) of portables I've owned, I have to admit that I've had the fewest problems with and most affection for the PowerBooks (and now an iBook).

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  1. Apple has always been a good notebook supplier... by wizbit · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...and when they've faltered, they've made up for it in spades with programs like an excellent trade-in opportunity for owners of the ill-fated 5300- and 190-series powerbooks, or defective power adaptors. I had one of these beasts fail on me and I've got to say, the Apple rep I talked to was just amazing. I got a free adaptor, I got about $500 off a new Wallstreet PB, and traded THAT in again for a new iBook.

    The iBooks are spectacular. They are thin, light, and the benefits provided by the PowerBook G4 (speed, screen size) pale in comparison to the fact that the iBook won't scorch your lap(!) - and besides, the speed hit is minimal even under OS X, especially now that 10.1 is out. For $1199, you get an extremely respectable G3 machine with all the bells and whistles appreciated by myself and other Apple fans that have kept us coming back again and again.