The Macintosh PowerBook 170 offers high performance and flexibility and is small enough to fit inside a briefcase. It includes a CPU, full-size screen and keyboard, trackball, battery, and disk storage.
It is comfortable to work with because of its integrated trackball and palm rest, and you can adjust the standard-size keyboard and full-page-width screen. It runs applications up to 50 percent faster than the PowerBook 140. It comes standard with 4MB of RAM and a built-in modem.
The PowerBook 170 provides the connections for built-in networking and six built-in ports for access to high-capacity hard disks, printers, and input devices.
The built-in modem sends electronic mail, accesses information on other computers, connects to an AppleTalk network, and sends documents to facsimile machines. It has built-in sound input to include sounds from different sources.
Macintosh PowerBook 170 Features
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- Processor: 25 MHz 68030 microprocessor
25 MHz 68882 math coprocessor
- Memory: 4MB of RAM, expandable to 8MB
- Expansion: Six built-in ports for peripherals
Internal slots for modem and RAM
- Display: Backlit active matrix, 640 by 400 pixels
- Modem: 2400-baud data, 9600-baud facsimile send
Features Built Into Every Macintosh
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- Usability: Runs thousands of Macintosh applications
- System software: System 7.0.1, with multitasking, file sharing, Balloon
Help, and TrueType fonts
- Networking: Built-in AppleTalk networking
File sharing without a dedicated server
- Compatibility: Macintosh, MS-DOS, OS/2, and ProDOS floppy disk formats
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