PC-GR TECH HISTORY Apple PowerBook Duo 2300c/100
Apple PowerBook Duo 2300c/100 | TechMuseum
Year of Manufacture: 1992
Technical Specifications:
- Monitor: Color, LCD 640×400
- CPU: PowerPC 603e, 100 MHz
- RAM: 8 or 20 MB
- Storage Units: HDD (750 MB or 1GB )
- Connectability: Serial, modem, parallel, video, speaker, USB 2.0
- Keyboard: 63 keys
- Weight: 2.2 kgr
- OS: System 7.5.2. or Mac OS 9.1
The Apple PowerBook Duo 2300c/100 features a PowerPC 603e processor at 100 MHz and memory of 8MB up to 20MB. Equipped with an HDD disk at 750MB or 1GB 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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