The 15-year Powerbook line of portable Macintosh computers finally came to an end. The 17-inch PowerBook G4 was soon replaced by the 17-inch MacBook Pro, and the 12-inch PowerBook G4 remained available until May 16, 2006, when the first 13-inch MacBook was announced as the replacement for the iBook. The 12, 15, and 17-inch aluminum PowerBook G4 models remained on sale in Apple Stores, until inventory ran out. The PowerBook G4/1.67 15' features a 1.67 GHz PowerPC 7447a (G4) processor with the AltiVec 'Velocity Engine' vector processing unit and 512k on chip level 2 cache, 512 MB of PC2700 DDR SDRAM, an 80 GB Ultra ATA/100 hard drive (5400 RPM), a slot-loading 8X 'SuperDrive', a Firewire '400' and '800' port, built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme (802.11g), and ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (4X AGP) graphics with 64 MB of DDR SDRAM in an attractive aluminum alloy case with a 15' widescreen TFT. The first MacBook Pro came in a 15.4-inch model with an aluminum enclosure similar to the preceding PowerBook G4. PowerPC PowerBook models PowerBook 1000 seriesĪt the Macworld Conference & Expo at San Francisco in 2006, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed the MacBook Pro, based around an Intel processor. 68K PowerBook models PowerBook 100 series
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