It is the first Apple portable to ship with Nvidia GeForce 4 420 Go graphics, and unlike the similar 12″ iBook, the 12″ PowerBook G4 supports monitor spanning.Īt 867 MHz, this just meets the minimum installation requirements for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
New features include built-in Bluetooth and support for “five times faster” 802.11g AirPort Extreme. In some respects, it’s more like an aluminum-clad 12″ iBook upgraded with a G4 than a low-end PowerBook. It supports 10 and 100 Mbps ethernet, but not gigabit ethernet. It’s also the only current model without DVI support and an official memory ceiling of 640 MB.
The 12″ PowerBook G4 is the first PowerBook in years without a PC Card slot. Just two months after Apple boosted the 15.2″ PowerBook to 1 GHz, they surprised a lot of people by rolling out both the largest and the smallest PowerBooks ever, including the first 12″ PowerBook G4.
