Apple Macintosh Powerbook 5300c (1995) Full Tour and Disassembly

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For those of you who think that Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 was the first consumer product which had overheating batteries that could catch fire - think again!

The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 5300, launched in 1995, was originally specified with Lithium-Ion batteries, but after several units overheated and caught fire, Apple had to switch to NiMH batteries. Apple also had to recall all of the units that had been produced (around 1,000), and those that had been sold (somewhere between 1 and 500...)

As if that wasn't bad enough, the PowerBook 5300 also had other design and assembly issues which resulted in Apple offering a 7 year warranty on some of the repairs!

Apple Macintosh PowerBook 5300

Introduced : August 1995
Discontinued : August 1996
CPU : Motorola PowerPC 603e running at 100 or 117 MHz
CPU Data Bus : 64-bit
FPU : Built-in (PowerPC)
RAM : 8 MB RAM (expandable up to 64 MB)
Disks : Internal 1.4 MB SuperDrive (expansion bay module), 500/750/1100 MB IDE hard disk
Video : Internal 16 grayscale 640x480 passive matrix LCD for 5300, colour passive matrix for 5300cs, colour active matrix for 5300ce.
Expansion slots : 1 x memory expansion slot, 1 x external expansion bay
Supported Macintosh System (MacOS): 7.5.2 to 9.1

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