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PowerBook G3 ("Lombard")

Apple released one product on 10 May 1999: PowerBook G3 ("Lombard").

It was the 2nd of 7 dated moments the archive holds for 1999, 125 days after the previous one, 5 January 1999.

PowerBook G3 ("Lombard") product photograph

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What Apple released

PowerBook G3 ("Lombard")

Mac · PowerBook G3 · discontinued 16 February 2000

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.

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Sources

  1. PowerBook G3 ("Lombard") · Wikipedia

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