![]() As Owen Linzmayer relates in his excellent (although now considerably outdated) book Apple Confidential 2.0, the biggest missed opportunity for the PowerBook 5300 on the big screen came in 1996’s Mission: Impossible, in which Tom Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt uses the laptop. ![]() Not all on-screen appearances by Apple computers proved so auspicious. The computer then deactivates the enemy ship’s shields by uploading a virus. In Independence Day, for example, the Mac (a platform that was just beginning to get better at interfacing with Windows PCs) plugs into an alien mothership, courtesy of its 100MHz processor, 64MB RAM and Mac OS 7.5.2 operating system. ![]() But 1995’s PowerBook 5300 did a lot better than most, mainly due to its starring role in so many films. ![]() PowerBook 5300: Apple’s Hollywood computerĪpple always did a great job getting its products in movies. ![]()
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