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I have had the Powerbook for a few months now and still think it is the sexiest thing I ever did see!
it was her birthday and everything. one year old.
i am now a walking advert for the macbook pro and its MAGNETIC power cord. genius. because this really did happen by tripping over the power cord and sending my powerbook crashing to the ground.
yes, i am very sad. and yes, she is insured.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_170
"The PowerBook 170 was released by Apple Inc. in 1991 along with the PowerBook 100 and the PowerBook 140. 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 Floating point unit (FPU) and a more expensive and significantly better quality 10 in (250 mm) active matrix display. It was replaced by the PowerBook 180 in 1992."
This is the best small laptop ever made!
It's 100% functional and the batteries last for at least 3 hours on a charge.
1.33 GHZ
1.25 GB RAM (maxed out)
60 GB hard drive
Superdrive (DVD/CD burner)
Also included:
Extra battery
I have uploaded some photos of it here:
flickr.com/photos/thelastminute/sets/72157594514586917/
The rest of the specs are here:
support.apple.com/specs/powerbook/PowerBook_G4_12-inch_1_...
Thanks!
The Mac was 30 this week. I made the switch a decade ago with this Mac - the Powerbook 12". I bought it for testing but it quickly became my computer of choice. It still works. It's still a great machine. It's also a fantastic design that was built to last. It's battery's dead but everything else works perfectly.
I had used Mac's at Uni and I used to have an Power Mac 9600 at work and later a Mac Mini. But I was never a fan of System 7 or 8. I'd grown up using Commodore Amigas and used Unix machines such as Silicon Graphics and Solaris at Uni in preference to anything else. A computer without proper multitasking was simply a frustrating step back. (I hated switching to Windows 3.11 for work purposes). But with OSX, Apple finally produced computers that worked. With Intel Macs, they finally produced a machine that allowed me to drop my PCs as I could run my software in VMs. Now, other than the PC development tools I require for my job and an old Samsung Netbook I keep around for testing. I'm 100% Mac. I'm now on my 6th Mac. Everyone has been a pleasurable experience.
Originally a broken Powerbook G4 purchased from a Craigslist listing for $15. A $6 cable and a few hours of tenacity brought this titanium beauty back to life. I just can't stand letting one of these beauties of industrial design be relegated to the trash heap.
I'm hoping that it finds a new home through eBay. My Macintosh collection focuses on computers with the retro rainbow-colored Apple logo.
The PowerPC is dead. Long live PowerPC.
1GHz G4 Processor
15" Screen
1GB RAM
80GB HD
DVD Superdrive
DVI Output
Airport
Mac OS X 10.5.8 Installed
If you go on google and search 'powerbook & heat' - you'll see pages of rants about how hot powerbook gets and how not a laptop it is (as in it burns your lap). But I found a reason to fall in love with my PB (again) - it creates perfect nice cozy little incubation for my bread dough - the dough loves my PB and is raising like magic.
Another reason to get a mac. Windows - you can't do this can you?
Powerbook: Thanks, dough. You made me feel needed.
Dough: No problem. I feel myself bigger being next to you.
lol
/procrastinating from my mid-term essay
The last PowerBook to be released by Apple, in October '05.
It's now hopelessly slow and outdated, but it still serves me well.
Here, it looks much cooler than it actually is :)
This is my current workspace showing my weblog. Nothing fancy, just the way i like it. I think ill connect an external monitor for when im working, since 1024x768 IS a little small when you have to do some serious stuff.
After a few years of solid service, I'm parting with my trusty PowerBook. It's done a great job as my main computer for work and play; it handles most everything with ease.
As for condition, it's in okay shape, There's some pitting on the palmrest and a ding near the power socket, but nothing that affects day-to-day function.
Get in touch if you're interested in buying it!
1.5Ghz G4 PowerPC
1GB RAM
Superdrive (DVD/CD Burner)
15" Display
New Battery
Timbuk2 Case
Leopard Install Disc
$400
Phil Torrone helped me make get this engraved using the Make Magazine laser cutter..pretty happy with this..
学生時代に愛用していたPowerBook Duo230。
これで卒論書いたっけ。中古で買ったけれど当時でも高かったなぁ。
バックライト交換とか色々とやったなぁ。その過程でボディ色も緑に塗装してみたり、金に塗装してみたり、赤に塗装してみたり、、、と色々やったっけ。ちなみに液晶側も塗装したんですが、壊れてストックパーツに換装。それで上記の妙なツートンカラーになっている。よくやったな、こんなこと。・・・若いって素晴らしい（苦笑）。
CPU:68030にスッゴイ憧れて買った。だって68030っていったらNeXT Cubeに搭載されていたんだもの（68030/25MHz）。このDuo230は68030/33MHzだったから、この小さな中でCPUは初代Next Cubeを越えたのか！と実に感慨深かった。
そーいえば、その昔、Duo-Zoneなるユーザー会に入っていたのを思い出す。
これはすっごい名機だったなぁ。
そしてあの頃、テクノロジーって凄い楽しかったなぁ〜。
（・・・いや、いまでも十分に楽しんでいるんですが、昨今の進化は早すぎでチョット）