The PowerBook 500 series, code-named “Blackbird,” was Apple’s first major PowerBook redesign. I know people who loved those laptops, though I never had one–and in my opinion, ...

On October 21, 1991, Apple launched the PowerBook and every other laptop and notebook computer from that day forward to today's MacBook Pro was changed because of it.

If Apple reinvented the PowerBook Duo for the 21st century, you could expect to see my kidneys on eBay. Still—and this is likely just my age—I find there’s something just kind of right and ...

Hard drive space in the Powerbook tops out at 48 gigabytes, but you have to pay extra for it. The machine comes with Apple's latest operating system, the Unix-based OS X version 10.1, as well as ...

For Apple Computer, releasing a G5 PowerBook continues to be a weighty issue. Apple customers have been waiting for the company to deliver a PowerBook driven by the G5 chip for some time. The more ...

Ever since Apple Computer Inc. released the iBook G3, Macintosh users have debated the relative merits of the company’s entry-level laptop and its pro line of sleek PowerBook G4s. Until last ...

Apple PowerBook CNET Rating: 8 out of 10. The PowerBook comes in two standard configurations. The $2,499 entry-level model includes a 667-MHz G4 processor, 256 MB of RAM, and a 30-GB hard drive.

Now that I've had my shiny new 12" PowerBook for about 6 weeks, I've decided to share my experience with the forum folk here at Ars. For many weeks before I took the plunge and ordered the laptop ...

Apple 12-inch PowerBook. Though more expensive than the more basic 12-inch iBook G4 and some comparable PC laptops, the 12-inch PowerBook G4's performance, solid set of features, ...

Apple customers have been waiting for the company to deliver a PowerBook driven by the G5 chip for some time. The more powerful chip first arrived in the Power Mac line in 2003, and Apple began ...