Symantec updates According to a press release from Symantec, Panther-compatible updates to Norton Utilities 8.0, Norton AntiVirus 9.0, and Norton SystemWorks 3.0 will be available via LiveUpdate on ...

Apple Computer Inc. is a company that's made its reputation by following the beat of its own drummer. In fact, I can't remember another time when Apple has publicly cited another company's product as ...

MacFixIt reader John Wolf notes an interesting new feature on the PowerBook G4 15" (FireWire 800), and possibly other models, where FireWire target disk mode can see what is in the optical drive: "I ...

This is a tale of old CPUs, intensive SMD rework, and things that should work but don’t. Released in 1994, Apple’s Powerbook 500 series of laptop computers were the top of the line. They had built-in ...

On October 21, 1991, Apple launched the PowerBook and every other laptop and notebook computer from that day forward to today's MacBook Pro was changed because of it. Steve Jobs was not responsible, ...

Let’s start our look at Apple’s latest 15-inch PowerBook, with a glance back at what the company offered in the same size just one year ago. In March 2004, the 15-inch aluminum PowerBook was just six ...

Apple’s Year of the Notebook started quite impressively, with the release of the 12-inch PowerBook, a compact laptop that combined extreme portability with the performance of the G4 processor.

It’s a nagging question for which there is seemingly no correct answer, akin to the “paper or plastic” query at the grocery store: PowerBook or iBook? Aluminum or polycarbonate? Twelve-inch or 14-inch ...