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The PowerBook 165c was Apple's first color laptop, essentially being a 165 with a color screen attached. It was special for this reason, but largely undermined in history as the Active Matrix 180c came out just a few months later.

PowerBook 165c Specifications

• Release Date: February 1993
• Discontinuation Date: December 1993
• Processor: Motorola 68030 @33MHz
• Bus Speed: 33MHz
• L1 Cache: 0.5kb
• RAM: 4MB. Upgradable to 14MB.
• RAM Type: PowerBook 1xx Proprietary
• Display: Color Passive-Matrix @640x400
• VRAM: 512k
• HDD Size (Standard): 80 or 160MB
• HDD Type: 40-pin 2.5" SCSI
• Expansion Slots: None
• Main Battery Type: Ni-Cad
• PRAM Battery Type: 3V Lithium Coin cell
• Original Mac OS: 7.1
• Maxiumum Mac OS: System 7.6.1

PowerBook 165c Upgrades

How do I put an SSD in it?

See our page on SCSI SSDs for more info.

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