Houston Chronicle People love their Apple PowerBook portable computers.
Few machines inspire such intense adoration.
Part of that has to do with the fact that it's a Macintosh. In addition, the PowerBooks are well-designed and have been from the start. So when a new PowerBook ambles into compu-town, expectations are high. The new 5300 line from Apple does not disappoint, although there are a few things that keep it from being the perfect notebook computer. The most dramatic change is in the computer's main chip.