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PowerBook 165c (1993) In today’s world where we take color for granted, it’s hard to imagine a time when a color display was an expensive add-on option, not the default configuration in every laptop. The PowerBook 165c is notable for being both the first Apple laptop with a color LCD display and the first laptop in the world to display 256 colors on screen, a passive-matrix display with a 640x400 resolution. After 1993, many PowerBooks would offer color options, but they didn’t come cheap: color PowerBooks typically demanded a $1,000-$2,000 price premium over their monochrome counterparts until the late 1990s. (Photo: Apple, Inc.)

PowerBook 165c (1993)

In today’s world where we take color for granted, it’s hard to imagine a time when a color display was an expensive add-on option, not the default configuration in every laptop. The PowerBook 165c is notable for being both the first Apple laptop with a color LCD display and the first laptop in the world to display 256 colors on screen, a passive-matrix display with a 640x400 resolution. After 1993, many PowerBooks would offer color options, but they didn’t come cheap: color PowerBooks typically demanded a $1,000-$2,000 price premium over their monochrome counterparts until the late 1990s. (Photo: Apple, Inc.)