July 18, 1994: Apple ships its PowerBook 150 laptop, the company’s first truly affordable PowerBook — and the last to feature the original case design, which included a built-in trackball mouse. While ...

A flat touch surface isn't enough — thirty years after it retired the trackball in favor of touch-sensitive trackpads on PowerBooks, Apple could be planning to combine the two ideas into a new input ...

Apple's 2005 PowerBook G4 models are the first with new trackpads manufactured by Cypress Semiconductor, not Synaptics. Unfortunately, the new trackpads appear not only to be generally slower in ...

This is a tale of old CPUs, intensive SMD rework, and things that should work but don’t. Released in 1994, Apple’s Powerbook 500 series of laptop computers were the top of the line. They had built-in ...

June 7, 1993: Apple debuts the PowerBook 180c, a solid upgrade that brings a world of dazzling colors to the company’s laptop line. The 180c’s big improvement over the grayscale PowerBook 180, which ...

A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple Inc. is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the ...

What the hell? That thing is straight out of 1995. Seeing it paired up with a Powerbook is pretty unique, but however you prefer to work, I guess. Anybody out there still use a trackball like this?

Apple’s Macintosh Products Guide has updated its Hot Deals Web site with The Apple Store for Business offering several new bundles. Bundles at the Apple Store for Business include: The Pro Publishing: ...