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Power Macintosh 5500 and PowerBook 3400

Apple announced two products on 17 February 1997: Power Macintosh 5500 and PowerBook 3400.

It was the 1st of 8 dated moments the archive holds for 1997, 89 days after the previous one, 20 November 1996.

Power Macintosh 5500 product photograph

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What Apple announced

Power Macintosh 5500

Mac · Power Macintosh · discontinued 31 March 1998

The Power Macintosh 5500 is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from February 1997 to March 1998. Like the Power Macintosh 5260 and 5400 that preceded it, the 5500 is an all-in-one design, built around a PowerPC 603ev processor operating at 225, 250 or 275 MHz.

Apple originally produced the Power Macintosh 5500 for the educational market as a replacement for the previous year's Power Macintosh 5400. It is the last All-In-One from Apple to be housed in the Power Macintosh 5200 LC's form-factor; its replacement, the Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One, introduced a significantly different design.

PowerBook 3400

Mac · PowerBook · discontinued 14 March 1998

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

Power Macintosh 5500 product photograph
Power Macintosh 5500

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Power Macintosh 5500 product photograph
Power Macintosh 5500

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Power Macintosh 5500 product photograph
Power Macintosh 5500

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Power Macintosh 5500 product photograph
Power Macintosh 5500

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Power Macintosh 5500 product photograph
Power Macintosh 5500

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Power Macintosh 5500 product photograph
Power Macintosh 5500

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PowerBook 3400 product photograph
PowerBook 3400

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Also in 1997

Sources

  1. Power Macintosh 5500 · Wikipedia
  2. PowerBook 3400 · 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.