The PowerBook 100 was one of the earliest Apple laptops released, coming not long after the breakout Macintosh Portable. Unlike modern hardware, it relied on sealed lead acid batteries.

But the PowerBook 100 made some huge steps forward for laptops. While it wasn’t the first portable computer to take what we see today as a laptop’s form (that honor goes to the NEC UltraLite ...

The machine was introduced as the PowerBook 100 series at the COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas. In fact, there’s even a recording of the introduction that you can watch below. Apple launched three ...

The PowerBook 100 was one of the earliest Apple laptops released, coming not long after the breakout Macintosh Portable. Unlike modern hardware, it relied on sealed lead acid batteries.

Some will be looking back happily on years of enjoyment—and others will be regretting that PowerBook 100 they bought in 1991 for $2,300 (about $4,000 in today's dollars!). Here’s a glimpse at ...

A successor to Apple’s first-ever laptop — the Mac Portable — the PowerBook 100 featured a setback keyboard, which made room for palm rests, and a front-and-center trackball — for both ...

Once docked with the massive alien mothership, Levinson pulled out his trusty PowerBook 5300, equipped with a staggeringly powerful 100 MHz processor and a ridiculous 64 MB of RAM, and (somehow ...

By introducing the PowerBook 100 in October of 1991, Apple pioneered innovations that are now de facto standards on all notebook systems, such as the rear placement of the keyboard, a palm rest ...

Why It’s Important: Apple’s PowerBook 100, along with the 140 and 170, launched Apple’s long-lived PowerBook line of laptops, a culturally important brand which would dominate Apple’s ...

Stopping in to visit my dad and rummaging through a closet for my high school yearbooks, I ran across my dad's original Powerbook 100. Hooked it up to power, still runs perfectly, and the battery ...