PowerBook

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The PowerBook was a portable Macintosh - notebook from Apple .

After the first Macintosh Portable from 1989 was still very heavy compared to portable DOS computers, Apple launched the first Macintosh PowerBook in 1991.

In January 2006 the successor model, the MacBook Pro with an x86 processor from Intel, was introduced. The MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are now available. These replace the 15 ", 17" and 12 "PowerBooks.

List of Powerbooks

The code names mentioned below are names with which a new generation of devices is internally named before it appears on the market.

PowerBooks with Motorola 680x0 processors

  • PowerBook 100 (16 MHz 68000) code name: Derringer
  • PowerBook 140 (16 MHz 68030) Code name: Leary
  • PowerBook 170 (25 MHz 68030) Code name: Road Warrior
  • PowerBook 145 (25 MHz 68030) Code name: Colt 45
  • PowerBook 160 (25 MHz 68030) Code name: Brooks
  • PowerBook 180 (33 MHz 68030) Code name: Converse
  • PowerBook 145b (25 MHz 68030) Code name: Pike's Peak
  • PowerBook 165 (33 MHz 68030) Code name: Dart LC
  • PowerBook 165c (33 MHz 68030) Code name: Monet
  • PowerBook 180c (33 MHz 68030) Code name: Hokusai
  • PowerBook 150 (33 MHz 68030) Code name: Jedi
  • PowerBook 520 (25 MHz 68LC040) Code name: Blackbird LC
  • PowerBook 520c (25 MHz 68LC040) Code name: Blackbird LC
  • PowerBook 540 (33 MHz 68LC040) Code name: Blackbird, SR-71
  • PowerBook 540c (33 MHz 68LC040) Code name: Blackbird, SR-71
  • PowerBook 550c (33 MHz 68040) Code name: Blackbird, Thunder, Bonsai
  • PowerBook 190 (33 MHz 68LC040) Code name: Omega, Lombard
  • PowerBook 190cs (33 MHz 68LC040) Code name: Omega

PowerBooks with PowerPC-603 processors

NuBus architecture
  • PowerBook 5300 (100/117 MHz PPC 603e) Code name: M2
  • PowerBook Duo 2300c (100 MHz PPC 603e) Code name: AJ
  • PowerBook 1400 (117/133/166 MHz PPC 603e) Code name: Epic
PCI architecture / Old World ROM
  • PowerBook 3400 (180, 200, or 240 MHz PPC 603e) Code name: Hooper
  • PowerBook 2400c (180/240 MHz PPC 603e) Code name: Comet, Nautilus, Mighty Cat

PowerBooks with PowerPC G3 processors

PCI architecture / Old World ROM
  • PowerBook G3 (250 MHz PPC 750 (G3)) Code name: Kanga, 3500
  • PowerBook G3 series (233, 250, or 292 MHz PPC 750 (G3)) Codename: WallStreet
  • PowerBook G3 series II (233, 266, or 300 MHz PPC 750 (G3)) Code name: PDQ
PCI architecture / New World ROM
  • PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard) (333 or 400 MHz PPC 750 (G3)) Code name: Lombard
  • PowerBook G3 ( FireWire ) (400 or 500 MHz PPC 750 (G3)) Codename: Pismo

PowerBooks with PowerPC G4 processors

Titanium

Main article: PowerBook G4 Titanium

  • PowerBook G4 ; Code name: Mercury
  • PowerBook G4 Gigabit Ethernet ; Code name: Onyx, P25
  • PowerBook G4 DVI ; Code name: Ivory
  • PowerBook G4 1 GHz / 867 MHz; Code name: Antimony, P88

aluminum

  • PowerBook G4 12 inches ; Code name: Thresher, P99
  • PowerBook G4 17 inches; Code name: Hammerhead
  • PowerBook G4 12 inch DVI; Code name: Q54
  • PowerBook G4 15 inch FW 800; Code name: Q16
  • PowerBook G4 17-inch 1.33 GHz; Code name: Q41
  • PowerBook G4 12-inch 1.33 GHz; Code name: Q54A
  • PowerBook G4 15-inch 1.33 / 1.5 GHz; Code name: Q16A
  • PowerBook G4 17 inch 1.5 GHz; Code name: Q41A
  • PowerBook G4 12 inch 1.5 GHz (last model)
  • PowerBook G4 15 inch 1.67 GHz (last model)
  • PowerBook G4 17-inch 1.67 GHz (last model)

See also

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