Develops infamous tunnel vision after a few minutes of use. Keyboard bulges a bit in the middle. Screen doesn’t latch down.

The PowerBook 500 series introduced the built-in trackpad to personal computers before anyone else — a feature so obvious in retrospect that every laptop on earth has used it since. The 540c 'Blackbird' was the top of the line: active-matrix color, 33 MHz 68LC040, stereo speakers. Its benchmark scores embarrassed PC laptops that cost twice as much.

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