The Intel-based successor of the Power Mac is the Mac Pro, in line with the renaming of Apple's professional notebooks from PowerBook to MacBook Pro.

The PowerBook is a line of Macintosh laptop computers that was designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1991 to 2006.

The PowerBook Duo spanned the 68030 line of processors and sold through the PowerPC transition to the G3 processor with the 2300, also based on the 5300's internal architecture.

The PowerBook 500 series was the mainstay of the product line until the PowerBook 5300.

The " Lombard " appeared in 1999, ( AKA: Bronze Keyboard ) a thinner, lighter, and faster ( 333 or 400 MHz ) PowerBook with a longer battery life and had both USB and SCSI built in and was a New World ROM Mac, and then the " Pismo " in 2000, which replaced the single SCSI port with two FireWire ports, updated the PowerBook line to AGP graphics, a 100 MHz bus speed, and DVD-ROM optical drives standard, in addition to dropping the " G3 " from the PowerBook name.

Traditionally, the portable line trailed the desktops in the utilization of the latest processors, with the notable exception of the PowerBook G3 which occurred simultaneously with the desktop Power Macintosh G3 introduction.

The line targeted the consumer and education markets, with lower specifications and prices than the PowerBook, Apple's higher-end line of laptop computers.

In the late 1990s Apple was trimming its product line from the bewildering variety of intersecting Performa, Quadra, LC, Power Macintosh and PowerBook models to a simplified " four box " strategy: desktop and portable computers, each in both consumer and professional models.

Three boxes of this strategy were already in place: The newly introduced iMac was the consumer desktop, the Blue and White G3 filled the professional desktop box, and the PowerBook line served as the professional portable line.

* PowerBook G3, a line of laptop Macintosh computers made by Apple Computer between 1997 and 2000

Commencing with the PowerBook series, built-in LCD flat-panels became standard across the portable line, following an industry-wide evolution from grayscale to color and ranging from 9 " to 17 ".

The PowerBook Duo was a line of small subnotebooks manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from 1992 until 1997 as a more compact companion to the PowerBook line.

The PowerBook Duo line was replaced by the PowerBook 2400, which was slightly larger in size to the Duos, but still only the fifth smallest behind the PowerBook G4 which succeeded it as fourth smallest.

In contrast to the high end of the 100-series line with which the Duos shared the same processors, the PowerBook 170 and 180 with their crisp active matrix displays were both already in great demand over the lower powered models with passive matrix displays.

With PowerBooks being restricted to 68030s for several years, Macworld reviewers conceded that the best choice for power users was the PC-compatible Texas Instruments 80486 notebook, rather than the top-of-the-line PowerBook 180.

At the museum's PDP-1 restoration celebration in May 2006, Alan Kotok said his Macintosh PowerBook G4 laptop was 10, 000 times faster, came with 100, 000 times the RAM and 500, 000 times the storage, was 1 / 2000 the size, and cost 1 / 100 as much.

The PowerBook 190cs, the last 68k-based PowerBook, was discontinued in October 1996.

This same identification scheme was used in the iMac, PowerBook, and iBook lines of Macintosh computers.

Other past Macintosh lines which used PowerPC processors include the PowerBook 5300 and later models, iMac, iBook and Xserve as well as the Apple Network Server, which was not technically a Macintosh.

The PowerBook 140 and 170 were the original PowerBook designs, while the PowerBook 100 was the result of Apple having sent the schematics of the Mac Portable to Sony, who miniaturized the components.

Hence the PowerBook 100's design does not match those of the rest of the series, as it was actually designed after the 140 & 170 and further benefited from improvements learned during their development.

When attempting to increase processing power, Apple was hampered by the overheating problems of the 68040 ; this resulted in the 100-series PowerBook being stuck with the aging 68030 which could not compete with newer-generation Intel 80486-based PC laptops introduced in 1994.

For several years, new PowerBook and PowerBook Duo computers were introduced which featured incremental improvements, including color screens, but by mid-decade, most other companies had copied the majority of the PowerBook's features, and Apple was unable to regain their lead.

In 1993, the PowerBook 165c was the first PowerBook with a color screen, later followed by the 180c.

In 1994, the last true member of the 100-series form factor introduced was the PowerBook 150, targeted at value-minded consumers and students.

The 500 series was the first PowerBook to feature PCMCIA slots, although this was an optional feature which required the user to sacrifice one of the two available battery slots to house the PCMCIA expansion cage.

The PowerBook 500 series was released as Apple was already moving its desktop machines to the PowerPC processor range, and a future upgrade was promised from the start.

Her stage adaptation of The PowerBook in 2002 opened at the Royal National Theatre, London.

The 970FX reduced thermal design power ( TDP ) to about 30 W at 1. 5 GHz, a figure which led many users to believe a PowerBook G5 might be possible.

Drawing heavily from the PowerBook technology, the TAM featured a 12. 1 " active matrix LCD capable of displaying up to 16bit color at 800x600.

The first generations of the PowerBook G4 were announced at Steve Jobs ' keynote at MacWorld Expo in January 2001.

The two women have collaborated on plays including Electra ( RSC ); The Good Person of Sezuan ( 1989, National Theatre ); Hedda Gabler ( 1991, The Abbey Theatre and BBC2 ); the controversial Richard II, with Shaw in the title role, also at the National Theatre ( 1995 ) and televised by BBC2 ; Footfalls, whose radical staging so enraged the Beckett estate that the production was pulled during its run ; The PowerBook, at the National Theatre, a dramatisation of Jeanette Winterson's novel ; Medea ( 2000 – 2001, Queen's Theatre and Broadway ); and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in which Shaw played the small part of Portia.

" The 2200 was aimed at mobile professionals, as it only weighed 3. 1 lbs and matched the PowerBook series at the time of the release.

* The PowerBook G4, at MacWorld SF 2001

* The 12 " Aluminum PowerBook G4 at MacWorld 2003

However, it was powerful enough at the time to replace Jerry Seinfeld's PowerBook Duo as his desktop Mac.

He wanted to show the technology to a gaming evangelist and was readying the demos on a PowerBook in the main hall at the San Jose Convention Centre when Stuart Cheshire ( the author of Bolo for Macintosh ) happened to sit right behind him and see what Juri was doing.

In 1989, Robert accepted the position of Director of Industrial Design at Apple Computer, where he provided design and direction for all Apple product lines, most notably the PowerBook.

The first displays were designed to match the colorful plastic of the Power Mac G3 and later the Power Mac G4 while the second revisions were designed to match the more professional aesthetics of the Power Mac G5 and PowerBook G4.

) The Kanga was on the market for less than 5 months, and is largely regarded as a stopgap system that allowed Apple to ship G3 PowerBooks in a predexistent Apple design while Apple prepared its more revolutionary PowerBook G3 Series.

All attendees received a developer preview of Tiger, a simple grey t-shirt with the Apple logo on the front and " WWDC2004 " on the back, a backpack capable of holding a 17-inch PowerBook, and a copy of Apple Remote Desktop 2. 0.