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I got my Powerbook 170 working!

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Posted 28 November 2002 - 09:13 PM

After hours of endless tinkering and smashing against my dresser, I finally put the power cord into the back of the Powerbook and got it running. Hooray! For those of you who are not familiar with the specs, it is a speedy 25mhz processor, an enormous 80 mb hard drive, and 8 megabytes of ram running the processor intensive OS 7.5.1. It has a 10" LCD screen in beautiful monochrome, and is a truly versatile mobile solution weighing in at just over 8 pounds. The "road warrior" as it was dubbed nearly 12 years ago is just 2" thick and sold for $4,600 in October, 1991. Now I can try to load OS X onto it and do some Photoshop. Maybe I'll max out the ram.
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Posted 28 November 2002 - 09:27 PM

Does it support Quartz Extreme and real time rendering in Final Cut Pro?

Just for shits and giggles: I have an Apple Portable here that has the following specs and is therefore faster than your powerbook! images/icons/shocked.gif

133 MHz ARM 7TDMI processor (1.), 32 MB of DRAM, a 20.0 GB hard drive.
My iPod hereby officially outperforms your powerbook! images/icons/grin.gif
Or am I a victim of the Megahertz Myth?

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Posted 28 November 2002 - 09:56 PM

I have a PB 5300cs, with a 100 mhz 603 and a 33 mhz system bus with 8 mb of RAM, 500 mb HD, floppy only and 600x480 active matrix screen! That thing sold fro like $6500 when it came out!!
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Posted 29 November 2002 - 09:56 PM

I'm doing some Final Cut rendering right now...
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Posted 30 November 2002 - 01:44 AM

Can you post again sometime next year when the rendering is done? images/icons/wink.gif
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Posted 30 November 2002 - 03:38 PM

Man, I used to think the PB 170 was the coolest...any hoo, I've got one of these still in the box (unopened)...
http://www.apple-his...lorclassic.html
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Posted 04 December 2002 - 07:01 AM

You have a Color Classic? images/icons/shocked.gif

Those are like collector's items. Very cool Macs.

I have a PowerBook 1400cs. Still works, but it's getting near the end of its life.

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Posted 04 December 2002 - 01:51 PM

3 years later. . . .

smurfslayer2k4: damn finally done with the rendering on my lightning fast PB 170 images/icons/grin.gif

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Posted 04 December 2002 - 04:38 PM

After weeks of toil, finally triumph. It is done rendering.

Shoot. Now it's frozen. How do I save?

I just unplugged the power, but the battery holds no charge, so I've lost all of my precious work. I will post again in approximately 3 weeks when the rendering finishes again. I also just maxed out my ram at 10mb.

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