powerbook 190/190cs

The last 680X0 machine apple ever built, the powerbook 190 featured an expansion bay for third-party drives, and 2 PC card slots. It could be configured with an optional Infra-red transceiver, and an optional video port for an external monitor. Introduced in august 1995, the powerbook 190cs was identical to the 190, but included a dual-scan color screen. Both models are built in the same case like the powerbook 5300 series with the power pc processors.

The powerbook 190 was released at the same time as the 5300 and shares the same case and basic features. The main difference is that it lacks a powerpc processor and instead uses the same 33 mhz 68lc040 as the 500 series. It is the last 68k powerbook released and filled out the low-end of apple’s laptop offerings. It includes the same expansion bay and pc card slots as the 5300 and could be configured with an infrared port and video out port if desired. The base model 190 includes a 9.5″ grayscale passive-matrix display with 4 mb ram and a 500 mb hard drive.