Power Macintosh G3 desktop
Mac · Power Macintosh · discontinued 5 January 1999
The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.
· Announcement
Power Macintosh G3 desktop and PowerBook G3
Apple announced two products on 10 November 1997: Power Macintosh G3 desktop and PowerBook G3.
It was the 8th of 8 dated moments the archive holds for 1997, 97 days after the previous one, 5 August 1997.
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What Apple announced
PowerBook G3
Mac · discontinued 14 March 1998
The PowerBook G3 is a series of laptop Macintosh personal computers that were designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from 1997 to 2001. It was the first laptop to use the PowerPC G3 (PPC740/750) series of microprocessors, and was marketed as the fastest laptop in the world for its entire production run. The PowerBook G3 was succeeded by the PowerBook G4.
The G3 was the first black Apple laptop, and was succeeded in this by the black MacBook in 2006. Previous PowerBooks were dark gray.
Read the full record →Photographs from this announcement
Also in 1997
- 17 February 1997Power Macintosh 5500 | 6500 | 7220 | 7300 | 8600 | 9600 and PowerBook 3400
- 7 March 1997eMate 300
- 20 March 1997Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
- 21 April 1997Workgroup Server 7350 | 9650
- 8 May 1997PowerBook 2400c
- 16 June 1997Color StyleWriter 4100 | 4500 | 6500
- 5 August 1997Apple ColorSync/AppleVision 750 Display and LaserWriter 8500
Sources
- Power Macintosh G3 desktop · Wikipedia
- PowerBook G3 · Wikipedia
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