{"id":13283,"date":"2016-01-13T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13283"},"modified":"2016-06-12T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T15:48:52","slug":"the-most-upgradable-portable-mac-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/the-most-upgradable-portable-mac-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Upgradable Portable Mac Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.512pixels.net\/blog\/2016\/1\/the-most-upgradable-portable-mac-ever\">Thomas Brand<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.512pixels.net\/blog\/2016\/1\/the-most-upgradable-portable-mac-ever\"><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PowerBook_G3#PowerBook_G3_Series_.28Wallstreet_Series_I.29\">PowerBook G3 Series<\/a> was Apple&rsquo;s most upgradable portable computer ever! It weighed 7.8 pounds, and cost anywhere between $2,299 to $7,000 fully loaded. Codenamed &ldquo;Wallstreet&rdquo; the PowerBook G3 Series was the second line of Macintosh portable computers to include a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PowerPC_G3\">PowerPC G3<\/a> processor, and the oldest portable Macintosh capable of running Mac OS X.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The PowerBook G3 Series included two hot swappable docking bays on either side. The left hand bay could accommodate a battery, a 3.5\" floppy disk, a Iomega Zip drive, a third-party magnetic optical drive, or even a secondary hard drive. The right hand bay was larger and could accommodate all of the above plus a full size 5.25\" optical drive. A small internal nickel-cadmium battery allowed swapping of the main batteries while the computer was asleep, and with two batteries installed at the same time the PowerBook G3 Series could last up to seven hours on a single charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>It&rsquo;s hard to remember now just how useful the bays were. When working at my desk, I would often run it with no battery. There was no built-in Wi-Fi, and it was super thick. This particular model was much less reliable than today&rsquo;s Mac notebooks. Often, mine wouldn&rsquo;t turn on unless I <a href=\"http:\/\/hints.macworld.com\/article.php?story=20070215132805440\">reset the PMU<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Brand: The PowerBook G3 Series was Apple&rsquo;s most upgradable portable computer ever! It weighed 7.8 pounds, and cost anywhere between $2,299 to $7,000 fully loaded. Codenamed &ldquo;Wallstreet&rdquo; the PowerBook G3 Series was the second line of Macintosh portable computers to include a PowerPC G3 processor, and the oldest portable Macintosh capable of running Mac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[452,295,30,1331,1227],"class_list":["post-13283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-hardware","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-powerbook","tag-top-posts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13285,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions\/13285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}