Editing PowerBook G3 (section)

==PowerBook G3 Bronze Keyboard (Lombard) ==
The third generation of PowerBook G3 (Lombard) was introduced in May 1999. It was much slimmer and lighter than its predecessor and was the first [[New World ROM]] PowerBook. It had longer battery life, and as with the Wallstreet II the user could double the duration to 10 hours by substituting a second battery for the optical drive in the expansion bay. The keyboard was also improved and now featured translucent bronze-tinted plastics, which is the origin of the "bronze keyboard" nickname. It was also the first Apple laptop to have a glowing Apple logo on the back.<ref name="q817">{{cite web | title=PowerBook G3 Q&A | website= EveryMac.com | date=2010-01-12 | url=https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/faq/powerbook-g3-how-to-upgrade-processor-options.html#glow | access-date=2024-06-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/28/new-mbp-no-backlit-logo-or-power-extension-cable/ |title=New MacBook Pros Don't Include Backlit Apple Logo or Power Extension Cable |last=Rossignol |first=Joe |website=www.macrumors.com |date=October 28, 2016 |language=en|access-date=October 21, 2019}}</ref>

Internal hard drives for the Pismo, Lombard, and Wallstreet II can be used interchangeably. The expansion bay drives (DVD, CD, floppy, battery) are interchangeable on the Pismo and Lombard, but not on the Wallstreet. A DVD drive was optional on the 333&nbsp;MHz model and standard on the 400&nbsp;MHz version. The 400&nbsp;MHz model included a hardware MPEG-2 decoder for DVD playback, while the 333&nbsp;MHz model was left without (except for the PC card one used by Wallstreet). Further DVD playback optimizations enabled both models to play back DVDs without use of hardware assistance. This model introduced USB ports to the PowerBook line while retaining SCSI support and eliminating ADB entirely (although the keyboard and touchpad still used an ADB interface internally). Graphics were provided by an ATi Rage LT Pro chipset on the PCI bus, to drive its 14.1-inch LCD at a maximum resolution of 1024×768.

Mac OS 8.6–10.3.9 are supported by Apple, but 10.4 is not, although OS X will not install (except for 10.0) if both RAM slots are not occupied with identical size RAM. The use of [[XPostFacto]] 4 enables users to upgrade to Tiger, and it runs quite well for an unsupported machine.{{cn|date=January 2019}} More RAM (up to 512 [[megabyte|MB]]), a greater hard drive (up to 128&nbsp;GB), and CPU upgrades (up to a 433&nbsp;MHz G4) are available for these PowerBooks.