In comparison to those, the PowerBook G4, the last Apple laptop to use a PowerPC CPU, looks almost impossibly sleek and understated. It's a masterclass of design that lives up to the Power part of ...

A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere ...

Don't throw that old laptop away! Here's why you should turn it into a NAS. The 2003 PowerBook G4 was one of Apple's most innovative products and included many firsts for the brand. Users were ...

In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an ...

During the early 2000s, Apple was heavily rumored to be working on a PowerBook G5 laptop to succeed the popular G4 model. That never came to fruition, though. Instead, Apple released its first ...

Over the years, Apple has made ... to the full PowerBook line. But I think that GIF says it all, really. I mean, damn, this machine was cool. Smaller in every dimension than the 12-inch iBook, this ...

In my younger days, I lugged around a 17-inch PowerBook G4 with pride ... is nowhere near what it used to be. While Apple still outfits its larger laptops with its fastest chips, the base M ...

Apple's premium laptop comes in 13- and 16 ... The first generation MacBook Pro followed in the style of the PowerBook G4 that came before it, but used Intel processors rather than PowerPC chips.

It replaced the PowerBook G4, heralding the era of Intel processors in Apple’s lineup, and setting the stage for a revolution in laptop performance and connectivity. The Retina Revolution Fast ...

Apple used to be more experimental ... is an abandoned evolutionary branch. The regular PowerBook 170 was a respectable, if very expensive laptop when it launched in 1991. A $4,600 sticker price ...