Thunderbolt connectors were introduced by Intel for the Apple Powerbook in the Spring of 2011.
But, like many Apple products, the PowerBook was initially priced at a level too high for the market to bear.
As part of the launch of the MacBook, Apple apparently removed the last remaining PowerBook, the 12-inch model, from its site earlier today (Apple also killed the iBook brand, but we don't really see anyone missing that nearly as much).
When Apple Computer introduced the first PowerBook in 1991, it was a dud.
Every computer after that was an Apple: Mac SE, PowerBook 100, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
Announced yesterday, Apple's new machine is the Titanium Powerbook G4 with a 667-megahertz Power PC processor.
While both the Macintosh and PowerBook had delivered strong revenue for Apple, they continued to try and diversify into other CE categories without success.
What you are really buying with a PowerBook is the underlying OS and Apple's growing suite of Web-centric personal apps such as iCal, iTunes and iPhoto.
Apple's iBook notebook computer gets a speed boost while the PowerBook gets a DVD burner.
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But fear not: while the new PowerBook's chassis is unchanged, under that black polycarbonate skin is a totally new logic board that gives this portable more in common with Apple's supercomputing G4 desktop machines than last year's PowerBook.
In 1995, I took advantage of the student discount program at NYU to purchase the PowerBook 5300cs, which was part of the first family of Apple Powerbooks.
All but the last Powerbook--yes, the one with the SuperDrive--are available now directly from Apple via its Web site and retail stores.
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