The wide 15.2-inch active matrix screen can display 1152x768 pixel resolution in millions of colors. The G4 notebook weighs just over five pounds, and is just one inch thick. An optional Airport card enables wireless networking. There's a PC Card slot and plenty of external connectors. Ports include a VGA connector for an external monitor, two USB ports for keyboard, mouse, or printer, a FireWire port for digital cameras or scanners, and an S-video out port.
Battery life is up to five hours.
All PowerBooks ship with a battery and AC adaptor. Prebuilt models have a single processor, but you can order dual processors in the 533MHz model. The Power Mac G4s can be upgraded to 1.5GB of RAM and have four PCI slots and one 4x AGP slot. All desktop models include a CD-RW drive, which lets you create music and data CDs. The 733MHz model has a SuperDrive, which also lets you write DVDs.