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The PowerBook 100 is a notebook-sized laptop computer designed and manufactured by Sony for Apple Computer and introduced on October 21, 1991, at the COMDEX computer expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. [3] Priced at US$2,500 with external floppy drive, [4] the PowerBook 100 was the low-end model of the first three simultaneously released PowerBooks.
The PowerBook 180 had a superb-for-the-time active-matrix grayscale display, making it popular. In 1993, the PowerBook 165c was the first PowerBook with a color screen, later followed by the 180c. In 1994, the last true member of the 100-series form factor introduced was the PowerBook 150, targeted at value-minded consumers and students.
The original PowerBook 100, 140, and 170 were replaced by the 145 (updated to the 145B in 1993), 160, and 180 in 1992. The 160 and 180 have video output, allowing them to drive an external monitor. In addition, the PowerBook 180 had a superb-for-the-time active-matrix grayscale display, making it popular with the Mac press.
PowerBook 100: PowerBook 100: August 3, 1992 PowerBook 140: PowerBook 100: August 3, 1992 PowerBook 170: PowerBook 100: October 19, 1992 1992 March 23, 1992 Macintosh LC II: LC: March 15, 1993 May 18, 1992 Macintosh Quadra 950: Quadra: October 14, 1995 August 3, 1992 PowerBook 145: PowerBook 100: July 7, 1993 October 19, 1992 Macintosh IIvi ...
PowerBook 100: PowerBook 100: August 3, 1992 PowerBook 140: August 3, 1992 PowerBook 170: October 19, 1992 1992. Quadra 950 PowerBook Duo. Released Model Family
The PowerBook 170 is a laptop computer that was released by Apple Inc. in 1991 along with the PowerBook 100 and the PowerBook 140. [2] Identical in form factor to the 140, it was the high end of the original PowerBook line featuring a faster 25 MHz Motorola 68030 processor with 68882 floating point unit (FPU) and a more expensive and significantly better quality 9.8 in (250 mm) active matrix ...
PowerBook 100 (1991) The Apple PowerBook series, introduced in October 1991, pioneered changes that are now de facto standards on laptops, including room for a palm rest . Later PowerBooks featured optional color displays ( PowerBook 165c , 1993), and first true touchpad ( PowerBook 500 series, 1994), first 16-bit stereo audio , and first built ...
PowerBook 140/170 The Macintosh Portable is a portable computer that was designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from September 1989 to October 1991. It is the first battery -powered Macintosh , which garnered significant excitement from critics, but sales to customers were quite low. [ 1 ]