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PowerBook 5300

PowerBook 5300The PowerBook 5300 was Apple's first PowerBook based on a PowerPC CPU.Due to problems with the original (flaming) LithIon battery (whichwas recalled before it reached the consumer market),plastic chipping from the case, and poor performance (among otherthings), we label it a Compromised Mac. (It was also the butt ofa lot of jokes.)

Still, despite limitations, the 5300 is a nice portable.Upgrading to Mac OS 8.1 or later makes it rock solid - and it's alot smaller than the PowerBook G3Series with its huge 14.1" screen.

The top-end $6,500 5300ce was the first PowerBook with an 800x 600 display. Earlier PowerBooks had been limited by 640 x 400and 640 x 480 displays.

By modern standards, its biggest drawback is probably the 64 MBmemory ceiling, which can be overcome using RAM Doubler or VirtualMemory.

PowerBook HardDrives: The Essential Upgrade notes that there may becompatibility issues with EIDE drives larger than 8.2 GB, althoughthis may be resolved by partitioning or using Mac OS 8.6 orlater.

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According to the Road Warrior and Other World Computing, the drive controller in pre-G4PowerBooks is incompatible with ATA-6/Ultra ATA-100 hard drives.

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