The 2015 MacBook Pro doesn’t necessarily enjoy the name recognition of other computers on this list. 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro You were expecting something else? Photo: Apple And the best Apple laptop of all time is … 1. How do I know? Because I’m still kind of drooling over it today. If you were drooling over a laptop in 2002, chances are it was this one. Oh, and the trackpad was a big upgrade over the previous trackballs of Apple laptops. Its RAM was upgradeable to 12MB, which was again very impressive for the day. In benchmark tests, it ran an epic 80% faster than the fastest previous PowerBook. This was the first Apple notebook to include a 33MHz Motorola 68LC040 CPU. With a color active-matrix display, Apple’s QuickTime video software and the PowerBook 540c’s built-in stereo sound, this was the multimedia laptop you wanted in the mid-1990s. At the time, Apple claimed it “may well be the finest screen ever to grace a notebook computer.” While its 9.5-inch, 640×400-resolution display looks primitive today, it was a stunner at the time. The PowerBook 540c brought the world’s first 16-bit portable display.

That’s the year Apple launched its PowerBook 540c, one of the best laptops in the company’s history. There aren’t too many times in Apple history that fans could legitimately argue that the company’s laptops are better than its desktops. 1994 PowerBook 540c With impressive specs and a fancy screen, the PowerBook 540c took Apple laptops up a notch.

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