![]() ![]() One notable, unavoidable downside to the machine was its weight-put it in a laptop bag of that era along with a power cord and weight was going to be at least 10 pounds all in, to say nothing of other things one might want on the go. To swap an item in a bay was as simple as pulling a small lever to eject an item, and merely inserting another item until it clicked into place. There were plenty of useful capabilities with these, notably a second battery-maybe you’d get 10 hours unplugged-or things like a ZIP drive. By default on my machine, one had a battery and the other the CD/DVD drive. The big feature I think most users appreciated were the hot-swappable bays. Installation of that Airport card is another example of how the flip-up keyboard made this upgrade easy. Likewise, I later got the add-on Airport card (802.11b), which was my first exposure to WiFi internet and felt liberating, no longer tethered to a modem. Built-in Firewire proved beneficial since I got an external disc burner as the machine didn’t have one natively. As others have noted, getting inside to replace something like RAM was easy, by little more than just lifting up the keyboard. Sure, the spinning hard drive wasn’t ideal, but that was the norm back then. In truth, I haven’t booted it in years.įor its time, it was a speedy Mac. Pretty certain I have mine set up with OS X 10.4 Tiger along with OS 9. I keep it around to have an OS 9 machine and the occasional urge to play Descent (the only computer game I’ve ever played). My memory is it cost me $2,000 between the end-of-life status and student discount. I bought it the day it was discontinued (intentionally), using a friend who could get it with a student discount. ![]() I have one of these PowerBooks, the 500 MHz Pismo.
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