This is a tale of old CPUs, intensive SMD rework, and things that should work but don’t. Released in 1994, Apple’s Powerbook 500 series of laptop computers were the top of the line. They had built-in ...

Code-named Blackbird, the PowerBook 500 series was launched this week back in 1994. The line was interesting: It was a high-style and high-performance laptop that offered the mobile user a quality ...

This is a tale of old CPUs, intensive SMD rework, and things that should work but don’t. Released in 1994, Apple’s Powerbook 500 series of laptop computers were the top of the line. They had built-in ...

The original Macintosh changed the future of personal computers, and its effects can still be seen in the latest PCs. Apple declared that personal computing was going to be different with its first ...

May 16, 1994: Apple launches the PowerBook 540c, one of the best laptops in the company’s history. Part of the innovative 500 series of PowerBooks, the 540c is the laptop to own in 1994. Blisteringly ...

Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the first portable Macintosh computer, the aptly-named Macintosh Portable. While it was indeed portable, it was anything but svelte. Apple's first non-desktop Mac ...

Irvine, CA – MCE Technologies, LLC, an Apple Developer, today announced an internal CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive upgrade for the PowerBook G4 (Titanium) 400MHz and 500MHz models. The MCE PowerBook G4 Combo ...

I assume you mean a PBg4/500, not a Pismo 500. I just recently got FCP 3 and it runs so-so on my G4/533 tower. I think my bigest problem is my lack of RAM. I only have 256 but plan on adding at least ...