Talk:PowerBook 100
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[edit] PowerBook 100 photo
Have a look at the photo, and if I should take a different shot please tell me.--Klaus with K 11:39, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] System 7.0
At a later stage, the PowerBook 100 was certainly sold with System 7.0 preinstalled.
[edit] PowerBook History and General Information
Altough the PowerBook 100 is often considered the FIRST PowerBook beacuse of its name and CPU, it really isn't. It was the entry level PowerBook in a group of three introduced simultaneously. As such, much of the History section and some other general aspects of the article pertain to the PowerBook line as a whole and are out of place in an article about the 100 specifically. The question is whether such detailed information needs to be included here,or if it should consist of a brief summary that refers to the PowerBook article instead for the more detailed background history of the family of products? My concern here is that information will ultimately be repeated between closely associated articles and that its inclusion in the PowerBook 100 section helps perpetuate the myth that the 100 was the first PowerBook, when in fact it was simply salvaging the Portable investment and offering it to a market who could otherwise not afford the higher end 140 & 170, which were the real focus of Apple's PowerBook efforts and true successor in market position to the Portable.--Mac128 (talk) 23:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
- If it was removed, the article would be rather bare. Plus, the 100 was as much a major part of the original development of the line as were the 140 and 170 models. I did have these thoughts myself when writing the section, but I think it's definitely interesting and of relevance. It's not as if it is off-topic info. I don't mind if some of this information is duplicated for the main PowerBook article. Nowhere does the article specifically say it was the "first" PowerBook. — Wackymacs (talk ~ edits) 23:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Copy-edit of lead section
Since the 3 simultaneous PowerBooks are mentioned, and the price, I thought it wouldn't be amiss to mention that the PowerBook 100 was the low-end model of the 3. --AnnaFrance (talk) 19:21, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
