Apple Computer is in the middle of a new kind of life. A year ago, the name Apple was prefaced with 'troubled computer company' or some such phrase. With the runaway success of its iMac the company seems to be on the road to recovery.
Although perhaps not quite as obvious as the iMac, the new PowerBooks also have been quite successful. Try buying one and you will see that they are nearly always out of stock.
What, then, is so special about these new PowerBooks? For one thing, they are blindingly fast. The new PowerBooks are aimed at what some call the 'power user', a phrase I find utterly ridiculous.
Perhaps it pleases the macho crowd - the same crowd that years ago had to have a longer telephoto lens than the next chap.
There is no doubting, however, that the G3/300 (the 300 represents the speed of the processor, which is 300 MHz) is an extremely capable machine, equal to all but a tiny handful of desktops.
The lover of statistics will be jumping with joy to hear what is 'under the bonnet' - an 8 gb hard disk, 192 Mb of Ram, built-in 56 Kbps modem, built-in SCSI port, two PC Card slots, infrared (does anybody use this?) and a 14.1-inch TFT display with a 1024 x 768 resolution (at 16 million colours). The weight is 3.5 kilograms. That is quite something.