PowerBook 190

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PowerBook 190

Motorola 68LC040 @ 33 MHz
Memory	4/8 MB, expandable to 40 MB (70 ns unique DRAM card)

The PowerBook 190 and its companion PowerBook 190cs are

display, while the 190cs featured a 10.4" color display. Apple's target sales audience for this model was the college student in need of a no-frills portable computer.

In terms of hardware, along with the

screen.

More significantly, while the 5300s ran

.

It is the only one of the 100 series PowerBooks that does not use the original 140 case design (except the PowerBook 100), thus was the only one to include a

PowerBook 500

series, which was completely discontinued with the introduction of the 5300 and the only 68040-based PowerBook Apple offered.

Sales figures for the 190 are unavailable, but in any event it did not suffer from reports of "exploding battery syndrome," where the similar 5300 factory-default lithium-ion battery could short-circuit and burst into flames. Apple quickly offered a recall on all such batteries. The PowerBook 190 series used a nickel–metal hydride battery which did not exhibit this problem.

Production of the 190 halted in June 1996, while the 190cs was sold until October of that year, when it was replaced by the PowerBook 1400cs.

Timeline

External links

• Apple's datasheets: PowerBook 190, PowerBook 190cs
• apple-history.com: PowerBook 190, PowerBook 190cs
• Lewis, Peter (September 5, 1995). "PERSONAL COMPUTERS: Sizing Up the Latest Powerbooks". The New York Times.