#MACINTOSH POWERBOOK 5300 SERIAL NUMBER#
#MACINTOSH POWERBOOK 5300 UPGRADE#

The Apple technician confirmed that additional shipping information will be required to ship the new unit via FedEx shipping services.

#MACINTOSH POWERBOOK 5300 SERIAL NUMBER#

Readers interested in the offer can call Apple Tech Support at (800) 500-7078 and select option '5.' A technician will ask for a customer name, phone number and serial number from either a PowerBook 5300 or 190 model. The tech support representative said details of the program are not available online to consumers and can only be explained at this time by phone. The model being quoted in the trade-in is the low-end PowerBook with a 400MHz PowerPC G3 processor, 1MB Level 2 cache, 64MB of memory, a 6GB Ultra ATA hard drive, a DVD-ROM drive, 8MB of video memory, a 56Kbps internal modem, two Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports and two FireWire ports. The representative said interested customers will be forwarded to the Apple sales organization who will begin the trade-in process, which should take less than two weeks. Once we receive the PowerBook, we will turn around and send the new PowerBook to you once we have funds arranged for.' 'What you end up doing is sending the PowerBook to us. 'You'll trade your PowerBook in to get one of these,' an Apple tech-support representative told MacCentral Friday. 'They told me I didn't have to be the original owner or even have a working unit.'

#MACINTOSH POWERBOOK 5300 UPGRADE#

'I called Apple about some 5300 problems I was having, and they told me I could upgrade at a pretty good price,' said Eric Moorehead of Quincy, Ill. The company also launched a trade-in plan for faulty models of the 20th Anniversary Mac, the flashy 'designer' system introduced during Gilbert Amelio's tenure as Apple CEO.ДЄ number of MacCentral readers have confirmed Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple ( aapl) has restarted the PowerBook after shutting it down in July. has kicked off a two-week PowerBook 5300 and 190 trade-in program that lets owners of these vintage Mac laptops - working or not - trade up to a 400 MHz G3 PowerBook for $1,799. With a minimum of fanfare, Apple Computer Inc.

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