12inch and 17inch Powerbooks Released

12inch and 17inch Powerbooks Released

Wednesday January 08, 2003 10:11 PM EST
Written by Arnold Kim

Apple Computer, Inc.

As you all know, in an (almost) surprise move, Apple introduced new Powerbooks at MacWorld Expo SF 2003:

12" Powerbook
867MHz PowerPC G4
256MB DDR 266 SDRAM 40GB Ultra ATA/100
NVidia GeForce 4 420 Go 32MB DDR video memory
Airport Extreme Ready
Bluetooth built-in

17" Powerbook
1 GHz PowerPC G4
512MB DDR333 SDRAM
60GB Ultra ATA/100
Superdrive
NVidia GeForce4 440 Go 64MB DDR video memory
Firewire 800
Airport Extreme Built-in
Bluetooth built-in

Identification of the laptops was revealed at the last minute Monday evening. Powerbook updates were not expected so soon after their recent update on November 6, 2002.

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