Macintosh PowerBook 500 with PowerPC

Introduced: August 1995
Terminated: 1995

Description

Running a PowerPC 603e processor at 100Mhz, the PowerBook 500 came with a hard drive of between 160 and 500Mb and had a 1.44Mb floppy drive.  The RAM was expandable to 40Mb.  There was an expansion slot for a modem and an optional type II or III PC card bay.

History

After the release of the PowerBook 5300 with a PowerPC processor, Apple introduced the PowerBook 500 as a follow-up.  However, it was discontinued very quickly.

Specifications

Processor: PowerPC 603e
Processor Speed: 100 MHz
Coprocessor: Built-in FPU
Cache: 32 KB L1
System Bus: 33 MHz
Hard Drive: 160 - 500 MB
Media: 1.44 MB floppy
Weight and Dimensions (US): 7.3 lbs., 2.3” H x 11.5” W x 9.7” D
Weight and Dimensions (Metric): 3.3 kg, 5.8 cm H x 29.2 cm W x 24.6 cm D
Original Mac OS: System 7.5.2 (PowerBook 5300/2300/190 Enabler)
Maximum Mac OS: Mac OS 9.1
Firmware: Macintosh ROM
Logicboard RAM: 4 MB
Maximum RAM: 40 MB
Type of RAM Slots: 1 - PB 5xx
Minimum RAM Speed: 70 ns
Interleaving Support: No
Graphics Card: None
Graphics Memory: 512KB
Built-in Display: 9.5” color active-matrix LCD
Resolutions: 640x400
Display Connection: Mini-15
Expansion Slots: Modem, Optional Type II/III PC Card Bay
Expansion Bays:—
Hard Drive Bus: SCSI
Backup Battery:—
Power Adapter:—
System Battery: PB 500 Intelligent Battery (M1906) (NiMH)
Max Watts: 40 W
Ethernet: AAUI-15
Infrared: None
Modem: None
ADB: 1
Serial: 1
SCSI: HDI-30
USB: None
FireWire: None
Audio In: 1 - 3.5-mm analog input jack, 1 - Built-in microphone
Audio Out: 1 - 3.5-mm analog output jack, 1 - Built-in speakers

Timeline

Introduced in August of 1995, the Macintosh PowerBook 500 with PowerPC was discontinued a short time later.

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