Priced at $4000 (adjusted for inflation), Apple’s PowerBook 500 series is a range of Apple Macintosh PowerBook portable computers first introduced by Apple Computer with the 540c model on May 16, 1994. The 500 series was the first laptop computer to use a trackpad instead of a trackball as a built-in pointing device and the first to have Ethernet networking built-in. The 540c (above) was rated #2 of the all time best PowerBook models made according to Insanely Great Macintosh. Continue reading for more.
