July 18, 1994: Apple ships its PowerBook 150 laptop, the company’s first truly affordable PowerBook — and the last to feature the original case design, which included a built-in trackball mouse. While ...

It’s a nagging question for which there is seemingly no correct answer, akin to the “paper or plastic” query at the grocery store: PowerBook or iBook? Aluminum or polycarbonate? Twelve-inch or 14-inch ...

Since the dawn of Apple laptops 35 years ago with the PowerBook 100, it has tried to make some of them affordable, with mixed results. The MacBook Neo finally delivers on that promise and is an ...

The current MacBook Pro is the worst thing since unsliced bread — at least if you believe my colleague Charlie “glass is half empty” Sorrel. But while people might be happy to dump on Cupertino’s ...

Even though Apple isn’t known for making the most pro-consumer devices ever (at least not since the Apple II), the trope that Apples aren’t upgradable, customizable, or otherwise hackable doesn’t ...

The laptop trackpad has come a long way since Apple Inc. pioneered it 14 years ago on the PowerBook 500 series as a replacement for the trackball found on earlier models. While almost anyone who has ...

The long-awaited low-cost MacBook powered by an A18 Pro chip is now expected to launch on March 4. It will reportedly be priced somewhere around $700, making it significantly cheaper than an ...

A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere near the speeds expected by consumers. Most artificial intelligence projects ...

Years ago I bought an old black Powerbook - its a Pismo model, a G3. I put a new hard drive in and upgraded the memory and it was fine for a while as I only really used it to check websites on that I ...

Apple has updated their 15-inch Powerbook, which was starting to seem a bit antiquated compared to all the 12-inch and 17-inch Powerbooks. The new version now has an aluminum casing (like the 12-inch ...