Pricing updated daily, seven days a week! ‘Smallest Notebook Ever’ ** AD: In the market for a thin and light laptop? Check out our MacBook Air price tracker right here on MacPrices for the lowest prices, best deals, and latest discounts on new and certified refurbished models from Apple (and Apple Authorized Resellers). In today’s edition of Retro Reading, a series here in my column where we dig deep into “The Press Box” archives for content written several years ago from PowerBook Central, we take a look back all the way to 2007 when rumors were running rampant across the web that Apple would be releasing a successor to its very first ultraportable laptop: the aluminum PowerBook G4 (12-inch). A mockup of a MacBook Pro “mini” created by this writer in 2007 using Apple’s stock photos of the 15-inch model, right, the only version available at the time, next to a 12-inch model of the PowerBook G4, left, the first ever ultraportable Mac notebook computer. As the thinnest and lightest Mac notebook computer to-date, its discontinuation in 2019 left a void (yet another) in the Cupertino, California-based company’s product lineup. You can help by expanding it.Retro Reading: Apple Working On A 12-inch Ultraportable? (Feels Like 2007 At PowerBook Central)įEATURE: 08.31.21 – Rumors of the MacBook being resurrected gave this writer the feeling of… déjà vu.Įarlier in the month - in a feature story in this column about the return of an ultraportable laptop to Apple’s portfolio of Macs - I cited a report from iDrop News which suggested that the MacBook (12-inch) might be making a comeback. PowerBook G4: Aluminum PowerBook G4 at Wikipedia.256MB or 512MB of PC2700 (333Mhz) DDR SDRAM with 2 SO-DIMM slots supporting up to 2GB.

The battery for the 15-inch PowerBook G4 (Aluminum) has been recalled for safety. The aluminum version of the 15-inch PowerBook G4 was introduced by Apple Computer in September 2003, nine months after the first 12 and 17-inch aluminum models were released. Please feel free to edit this article to add to missing sections and complete it.

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