Remember when notebooks were called laptops? If you can’t remember the early ’90s, then you wouldn’t remember that these cutting edge computers were hot and heavy and one rarely placed them on your lap.

Apple’s first crack at it failed but second time around was more then a charm for the Cupertino company that changed the world in 1984 when they released the PowerBook in 1991. In an interesting chronicle of the PowerBook — from black to aluminum — LowEndMac takes you step-by-step through the history of one of the most amazing notebook lines ever created.

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