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Macintosh IIvi, PowerBook 160 and PowerBook Duo 210

Apple announced three products on 19 October 1992: Macintosh IIvi, PowerBook 160 and PowerBook Duo 210.

It was the 6th of 6 dated moments the archive holds for 1992, 35 days after the previous one, 14 September 1992.

Macintosh IIvi product photograph

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What Apple announced

Macintosh IIvi

Mac · Mac II · discontinued 10 February 1993

The Macintosh IIvi (also sold as the Macintosh Performa 600) is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from September 1992 to February 1993. The IIvi was introduced alongside the Macintosh IIvx (which added an FPU, a RAM cache and had its processor clocked at twice the speed of the IIvi while the data bus was still at the same speed)). The Performa 600 models, meanwhile, are the IIvi with the IIvx's 32 MHz CPU. The IIvi was, on some benchmarks, faster than the IIvx. It is the only model in the Macintosh II family to be branded as a Performa.

This model was discontinued four months after its introduction, when the Centris 650 was introduced at a similar price point.

PowerBook 160

Mac · PowerBook 100 · discontinued 16 August 1993

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

PowerBook Duo 210

Mac · PowerBook Duo · discontinued 21 October 1993

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

Also in 1992

Sources

  1. Macintosh IIvi · Wikipedia
  2. PowerBook 160 · Wikipedia
  3. PowerBook Duo 210 · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.