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.

To be fair, though, Apple could have done with Jobs at the launch of the PowerBook 100, PowerBook 140, and PowerBook 170. Perhaps October 2021's MacBook Pro launch was a little overblown with ...

The laptop above is the 1991 PowerBook 100, which retailed for $2,500 ($4,150 in today’s dollars), and had a processor speed of 16 MHz and disk space of 30 MB. Today’s MacBook Pro (picture ...

The $2,300 you spent on an Apple PowerBook 100 in 1991 is worth a lot less now. It also doesn’t consider opportunity cost – a laptop allows you to learn a skill or get a job. In the long run ...

the PowerBook 100. In recognition of the 20-year anniversary of the Macintosh Portable, let's look back at some of the superstars of Apple's laptop lineup—as well as a couple of duds that should ...

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 ...

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 ...