Apple PowerBook 5300 CS | TechMuseum
Year of Manufacture: 1995
Technical Specifications:
- Monitor: Color, LCD 640×480
- CPU: PowerPC 603e,100 or 117 MHz
- RAM: 8 to 64 MB
- Storage Units: FDD (1.44MB), HDD (500 or 750MB)
- Connectability: Serial , parallel, audio intput/output, speaker, microphone, apple desktop bus, two card slots
- Keyboard: 75 keys
- Weight: 2.8 kgr
- OS: Mac OS 9.1 or System 7.5.2
The Apple PowerBook 5300 CS features a PowerPC 603e processor at 100 or 117 MHz and memory of 8MB up to 64MB. Equipped with a floppy disk at 1.44MB and an HDD of 500MB or 750MB it ran with the operating system of the MacOS 9.1 or the System 7.5.2 version.
The PowerBook series was the first generation of personal computers to have equipped the PowerPC processor. This family of computers, apart from the CPU, presented many similarities with the preceding Macintosh line, the original one.
Apple introduced to the world the original Macintosh personal computer series through a SuperBowl commercial video, called “1984”. During the years the company has made great innovations and the Mac series had undergone transitions. Regarding the processors from the powerful Motorola 68000 transitioned to IBM ProwerPC processors, to Intel x86 and now to Apple Silicon ones. Performance and power efficiency have been praised by the critics.
The name Macintosh was conceived after, what else, the founder’s favorite type of apple, literally the Canadian McIntosh red green apple. Each model introduced to consumers presented friendlier user experience, top of the art aesthetic design and powerful architecture.
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