PowerBook Duet

The PowerBook Duo are a series of computers ultra-portables marketed by Apple between October 1992 and February 1997. The originality of the PowerBook Duo is that they were conceived to be connected to a dock which extended their capacities.

Seven models of PowerBook Duo left: the Duet 210, 230, 250, 270c, 280, 280c and 2300c. The Duo 2xx were based around processors Motorola 68030 or 68LC040 given rhythm to 25 or 33 MHz, the Duo 2300c being the only one to use a processor PowerPC, much more powerful (a PowerPC 603 E to 100 MHz in fact).

The PowerBook Duo weighed generally less than 2 kg (the laptops of the time weighed often more than 3 kg, even 4 kg), made approximately 3,5 cm thickness and integrated screens LCD of 8,4 or 9,1 inches of diagonal. Because their low thickness, they integrated only one minimum of components and ports: they had reader of Disquette and neither port ADB, nor port SCSI (only a Série port/Lan was present). Their strong point was the connector 152 pins with the back which made it possible to connect them to a specific dock, and which conferred on the Duo , once connected, of additional storage space, a arithmetic coprocessor, more Mémoire hiding place, a broad connector industry, a reader of Disquette, slots of extension NuBus, or of the video Mémoire to connect a external screen.

Models of PowerBook Duet

  • October 1992:

    • PowerBook Duet 210 (processor 68030 with 25 MHz, screen 9,1" black and white with passive matrix, 1,9 kg, 2250 $)
    • PowerBook Duet 230 (processor 68030 with 33 MHz, screen 9,1" black and white with passive matrix, 1,9 kg, 2610 $)
  • October 1993:
    • PowerBook Duet 250 (processor 68030 with 33 MHz, screen 9,1" black and white with active matrix, 1,9 kg, 2500 $)
    • PowerBook Duet 270c (processor 68030 with 33 MHz, screen 8,4" color with active matrix, 2,2 kg, 3100 $)
  • May 1994:
    • PowerBook Duet 280 (processor 68LC040 to 33 MHz, screen 9,1" black and white with active matrix, 1,9 kg, 2600 $)
    • PowerBook Duet 280c (processor 68LC040 with 33 MHz, screen 8,4" color with active matrix, 2,2 kg, 3700 $)
  • August 1995

Docks

PowerBook Duet Dock

  • launching: October 1992
  • price with launching: 500 $
  • coprocessor Motorola 68882 (optional)
  • 512 KB of VRAM (extensible to 1 Mo)
  • Hard drive of 230 Mo (optional)
  • reader Diskette 3,5" 1,44 Mo
  • 2 slots of extension NuBus
  • 1 port SCSI
  • 1 port ADB
  • 2 ports series (printing and external modem)
  • port Ethernet AAUI-15
  • video out DA-15
  • entered and left its

PowerBook Duet MiniDock

  • launching: October 1992
  • price with launching: 390 $
  • 512 KB of VRAM
  • reader Diskette 3,5" 1,44 Mo
  • 1 port SCSI
  • 1 port ADB
  • 2 ports series (printing and external modem)
  • port HDI-20 for external Hard drive
  • video out DA-15
  • entered and left its

PowerBook Duet Dock II

  • launching: May 1994
  • price with launching: 530 $
  • coprocessor Motorola 68882
  • 32 KB of Mémoire hiding place level 2
  • 1 Mo of VRAM
  • Hard drive of 230 Mo (optional)
  • reader Disquette 3,5" 1,44 Mo
  • 2 slots of extension NuBus
  • 1 port SCSI
  • 1 port ADB
  • 2 ports series (printing and external modem)
  • port Ethernet AAUI-15
  • video out DA-15
  • entered and left its

PowerBook Duet Dock More

  • launching: May 1995
  • price with launching: 900 $
  • 1 Mo of VRAM
  • Hard drive of 230 Mo
  • reader Diskette 3,5" 1,44 Mo
  • 2 slots of extension NuBus
  • 1 port SCSI
  • 1 port ADB
  • 2 ports series (printing and external modem)
  • port Ethernet AAUI-15
  • video out DA-15
  • entered and left its

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