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Apple Opens The Book On 17" PowerBook Specs

Posted by timothy on from the r2d2-has-a-hologram-of-this dept.

maxentius writes "Apple released detailed specs on the new Aluminum 17-inch PowerBooks, apparently intended to spur compatible hardware development. A PDF is available."

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  1. I like F7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    F7 switches between making and external monitor and second screen and mirroring. This is nice if you hook up to a projector you can easily change it to mirror.

  2. So what? by coolmacdude · · Score: 2, Informative

    Someone apparantly thought this was a nonstandard Apple practice. In fact they have always provided detailed specs like these on all their systems.

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  3. Re:Apparently... what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The Mac Classic was no more an "original" Mac than the Mac II, or the Quadra 950, or the 17" PowerBook for that matter. It *was* the first sub-$1000 Mac, with an 8 MHz 68000--just like the *real* original Mac (128k)--but it was introduced in 1990, not 1984. apple-history sez: "The Classic was more or less a reissue of the Mac Plus. It shipped in a newly designed case and had a large 512k ROM, which it could boot from. Most found it extremely slow. It sold for $1500."

    HTH
    WM

    P.S. BTW, you're 100% right about this dev note being a normal part of the documentation. I too was wondering what was meant by the whole "apparently intended" thing in the article...

    Also, I'm very happy to see this doc finally posted--interesting to note that the two new PowerBooks are the first Macs to use the new Intrepid memory/(I/O) controller--though the 1 GHz iMac, 1.33 GHz Xserve, and FW 800 PMG4s might use it as well.