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My top Pick's (To Collect) - 68K Macintosh Powerbook's
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I'm going to flat out disagree with you about eliminating all passive LCDs.
The Bookends of the 100 series belong in ANY comprehensive collection of PowerBooks.
PowerBook 100 - SCSI Disk Mode, 8MB Ram, 16 MHZ 68000 and the Design Progenitor the SubnoteBook species.
PowerBook 150 - Last hurrah of the 100 series and the most expandable, currently supportable/useful 100 series PowerBook ever made.
IMHO, of course. :beige:
The Bookends of the 100 series belong in ANY comprehensive collection of PowerBooks.
PowerBook 100 - SCSI Disk Mode, 8MB Ram, 16 MHZ 68000 and the Design Progenitor the SubnoteBook species.
PowerBook 150 - Last hurrah of the 100 series and the most expandable, currently supportable/useful 100 series PowerBook ever made.
IMHO, of course. :beige:
same on both, but also the 190 being the last of the 68k macs it should be included too.
I personally am partial to the 160 and 180 just because the 160 was my first powerbook and than I upgraded to a 180, later I got a 165. Now I have a 180 again and will soon have a 165. and prefer to collect PBs since they're all-in-one and don't take up much space(small storage footprint is a bonus with the wife) |)
I personally am partial to the 160 and 180 just because the 160 was my first powerbook and than I upgraded to a 180, later I got a 165. Now I have a 180 again and will soon have a 165. and prefer to collect PBs since they're all-in-one and don't take up much space(small storage footprint is a bonus with the wife) |)
AHA!!!!! Suddenly he's not so sure about dismissing all Passive Matrix PBs! [}
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I wouldn't be so quick to say that...while it wasn't a true 1xx series, the 190 beats it in just about every single way. Choice of mono or colour FSTN in stock form, upgradable to a TFT from a 5300, doesn't require an adaptor made of pure unobtanium to upgrade the RAM, ADB port, the ability to add external video, 'LC040 chip, *and* and 2 PCMCIA slots! And the last ever 68k PowerBook.
I have a 100 with a dead battery (that apparently expanded, permanently wedging it in there,) and a bit of pixel rot right in the center of the screen.
I love it when the batteries expand and wedge them selves in there,
Also love it when you open up a 100x Powerbook and all of the standoff's are brittle and break or are already broke
And when you grab the lid to open it up, and you her snap snap and the hinges bust right out of the plastic in the screen,
My favorite is when you think you have a powerbook that is all set, good harddrive and etc,(complete) set it up on the shelf,
couple weeks later power it up and the hd just goes clunk clunk clunk.
Also love it when you open up a 100x Powerbook and all of the standoff's are brittle and break or are already broke
And when you grab the lid to open it up, and you her snap snap and the hinges bust right out of the plastic in the screen,
My favorite is when you think you have a powerbook that is all set, good harddrive and etc,(complete) set it up on the shelf,
couple weeks later power it up and the hd just goes clunk clunk clunk.
Not a chance, the 190 was not PowerBook Gray, was not 68030 architecture, had T-REX/IDE/PCMCIA on board and that, by definition, made it the improved BlackBird-> 5300 series progenitor, not a 100 series 'Book.
The 150 is, unarguably, the far bookend of the 100 series, but not the 68k series, as you pointed out. YMMV
And you can break e-ink displays just as easily, rendering them inop. Dont ask how i know this...
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