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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve owned a few PowerBooks over the years. I started out with a PowerBook 540c, and graduated over time to a bronze keyboard-equipped PowerBook G3 and three different PowerBook G4s. My third G4, a ...

If you’re a longtime fan of the Macintosh platform, chances are you are a bit of a collector and a historian. Aside from their being endearing machines that earned user loyalty, Macs retained their ...

A few months ago I brought my family's old Macintosh SE/30 to my home office. While it booted fine a few years ago, it looks like mine has developed SimasiMac, which means a trip inside the machine to ...