Producer: Apple - Category: Personal Computer
Photos: Photo 1 (small),Photo 2 (small),Photo 3 (small)
Photo 1: Patrick Finnegan from Lafayette, IN, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (PowerBook G3 Kanga.jpg)
Photo 2: Danamania, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (WallstreetII.jpg)
Photo 3: LiamTheGuy, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard).jpg)
Laptop, 1997, Apple. The PowerBook G3 series (1997 to 2001) were the first laptops with the PowerPC G3 processor and were marketed as the fastest laptops in the world; the original 1997 model (code name Kanga) used the PowerBook 3400 case, followed by the black "Wallstreet", "Lombard" and "Pismo" generations.
| Years | November 1997 to 2001 (series) |
| Manufacturer | Apple Computer Inc. (US) |
| Processor | PowerPC 750 (G3) at 250 MHz (original model); up to 500 MHz in later generations |
| RAM | 32 MB, expandable to 160 MB (original model) |
| Display | 12.1 inch active-matrix colour LCD, 800 x 600 (original model); 13.3 and 14.1 inch on later generations |
| Video | Chips and Technologies 65554 (original model) |
| Built-in storage | 5 GB IDE hard disk, 1.4 MB floppy drive and 20x CD-ROM in expansion bays (original model) |
| Interfaces | SCSI, ADB (Apple Desktop Bus), serial, Ethernet 10BASE-T, infrared, 2 PC Card slots, video output, audio; USB and FireWire on later generations |
| Operating system | Mac OS 8.0 to Mac OS 9.1 (later generations to Mac OS X) |
| Weight | 3.4 kg (original model) |
| Price (1997) | US$5,700 |
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