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LaserWriter Select 300, Macintosh Centris/Quadra 610, Macintosh Color Classic, Macintosh LC III, PowerBook 165c and Quadra 800

Apple announced six products on 10 February 1993: LaserWriter Select 300, Macintosh Centris/Quadra 610, Macintosh Color Classic, Macintosh LC III, PowerBook 165c and Quadra 800. The day spanned Mac and Printers.

It was the 2nd of 14 dated moments the archive holds for 1993, 40 days after the previous one, 1 January 1993.

LaserWriter Select 300 product photograph

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What Apple announced

LaserWriter Select 300

Printers · LaserWriter · discontinued 3 January 1995

The LaserWriter is a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter sold by Apple, Inc. from 1985 to 1988. It was one of the first laser printers available to the mass market. In combination with WYSIWYG publishing software like PageMaker that operated on top of the graphical user interface of Macintosh computers, the LaserWriter was a key component at the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution.

Macintosh Centris/Quadra 610

Mac · Centris · discontinued 21 October 1993

The Macintosh Quadra 610, originally sold as the Macintosh Centris 610, is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from February 1993 to July 1994. The Centris 610 was introduced alongside the larger Centris 650 as the replacement for the Macintosh IIsi, and it was intended as the start of the new midrange Centris line of computers. Later in 1993, Apple decided to follow an emerging industry trend of naming product families for their target customers – Quadra for business, LC for education, and Performa for home – and folded the Centris 610 into the Quadra family.

The 610 is the second Macintosh case design (after the Macintosh LC family) to use a pizza box form factor; it was later used for the Quadra 660AV and the Power Macintosh 6100. A server variant, the Workgroup Server 60, was introduced in July 1993 with a 20 MHz processor, which received the same 25 MHz upgrade in October.

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Macintosh Color Classic

Mac · Compact · discontinued 16 May 1994

The Macintosh Color Classic (sold as the Macintosh Colour Classic in PAL regions) is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from February 1993 to May 1995 (up to January 1998 in PAL markets). It has an all-in-one design, with a small, integrated 10″ Sony Trinitron display at 512 × 384 pixel resolution. The display is capable of supporting up to thousands of colors with a video memory upgrade.

A slightly updated model, the Color Classic II, featuring the Macintosh LC 550 logic board with a 33 MHz 68030 processor, with the full 32-bit data bus, was released in Japan, Canada and some international markets in 1993, sometimes as the Performa 275.

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Macintosh LC III

Mac · Macintosh LC · discontinued 14 February 1994

The Macintosh LC III is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from February 1993 to February 1994. It replaced the commercially successful Macintosh LC II in Apple's lineup of mid-class computers, and was significantly faster, with MacWorld Magazine benchmarks showing double the performance. It was also significantly less expensive; the LC III with an 80 MB hard disk was priced at US$1,349 at introduction, $700 less than the LC II. The LC III was sold primarily (but not exclusively) to educational institutions, and a corresponding Performa variant called the Performa 450 was sold to the consumer market.

A speed-bumped version, called the Macintosh LC III+ was released in October of the same year, with a 33 MHz CPU. Three Performa variants of this model were released: the Performa 460, 466 and 467. These faster models replaced the LC III and Performa 450, with sales of the original models continuing until the end of 1993 as dealers depleted their stocks. New sales of the LC III+ ended in early 1994 as Apple neared the completion of the transition away from 68030 processors. The 68LC040-based LC 475 and Performa 475 were their replacements.

PowerBook 165c

Mac · PowerBook 100 · discontinued 13 December 1993

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

Quadra 800

Mac · Quadra · discontinued 14 March 1994

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

LaserWriter Select 300 product photograph
LaserWriter Select 300

Apple · CC0

LaserWriter Select 300 product photograph
LaserWriter Select 300

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Macintosh Centris/Quadra 610 product photograph
Macintosh Centris/Quadra 610

CC BY-SA 3.0

Macintosh Centris/Quadra 610 product photograph
Macintosh Centris/Quadra 610

CC BY-SA 3.0

Macintosh Color Classic product photograph
Macintosh Color Classic

Mystère Martin · CC BY-SA 3.0

Macintosh LC III product photograph
Macintosh LC III

Stephen Edmonds · CC BY-SA 2.5

PowerBook 165c product photograph
PowerBook 165c

Miguel Durán · CC BY-SA 2.5

Quadra 800 product photograph
Quadra 800

CC BY-SA 3.0

Also in 1993

Sources

  1. LaserWriter Select 300 · Wikipedia
  2. Macintosh Centris/Quadra 610 · Wikipedia
  3. Macintosh Color Classic · Wikipedia
  4. Macintosh LC III · Wikipedia
  5. PowerBook 165c · Wikipedia
  6. Quadra 800 · 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.