powerbook G3 wallstreet

The second generation of powerbook G3 was completely redesigned with a new case that was lighter and more rounded than the previous powerbook G3 kanga; however, it was still an old world rom macintosh. The new powerbook came in three screen sizes: a 12" passive matrix LCD, a 13.3" TFT LCD, and a 14.1" TFT LCD. It also came in three cpu speeds: 233 MHz, 250 MHz, and 292 MHz. The 250 MHz and 292 MHz models shipped with 1 MB of cache. Because of this large cache, as well as the swifter system bus, the wallstreets were known to suffer from some heat issues.

Many of the problems of the first wallstreets were fixed in the next revision with bumbed processor speeds with 266 and 300 MHz. The case contained two docking bays, one on each side. The left-hand bay could accommodate a battery, a 3.5" floppy disk, a third-party Iomega zip drive, or a third-party add-on hard drive. The right-hand bay was larger and could accommodate any of the above plus a 5-1/4" optical drive (cd-rom or dvd-rom). DVDs could be displayed with the use of a hardware decoder built into a cardbus (pcmcia) card. The powerbook wallstreet was the last apple computer ever to bear the rainbow-colored apple logo. It was also the last old world rom model in the powerbook series.