PowerBook 5300 Developer Note

The Developer Note: Macintosh PowerBook 5300 Computer is Apple's hardware and software description of the PowerBook 5300/100, 5300cs/100, 5300c/100 and 5300ce/117 for developers, published by Developer Press in 1995. The hosted copy has 244 pages. Page numbers below are PDF pages; the printed page number is the PDF page minus 16.

Contents

Chapter	Starts on PDF page
1 Introduction: features, appearance, configurations, peripheral devices, compatibility	17
2 Architecture: processor, memory and I/O subsystems and the custom ICs	25
3 I/O Features: hard disk, floppy and expansion bay devices, trackpad, keyboard, displays, video, serial, SCSI, infrared, sound	33
4 Expansion Modules: expansion bay modules, RAM expansion card, video card and PC Card slot specifications	47
5 Software Features	77
6 Large Volume Support	91
7 Power Manager Interface	101
8 Software for ATA Devices	131
9 PC Card Services	195
Index	237

What it settles

• The 5300 was designed around a 16.8 V lithium-ion PowerBook Intelligent Battery with its own processor (chapter 1, p. 19). Production machines shipped with NiMH batteries after Apple's September 1995 recall; see PowerBook 5300.
• The built-in RAM is 8, 16 or 32 MB of self-refreshing DRAM, with up to 56 MB on a card for 64 MB in all (p. 18).
• The internal disk is a 2.5-inch IDE drive of 500 MB to 1.1 GB, and the expansion bay takes a floppy drive, another IDE device or a power device such as an AC adapter (p. 18).

What this note does not contain

• No schematics, no parts list and no service procedures; see PowerBook 190 and 5300 Series Service Source.
• Nothing on the NiMH battery that the 5300 actually shipped with, or on the recall.

Pages that cite this document

• PowerBook 5300, PowerBook 5300 General Maintenance

Download: PowerBook 5300 Developer Note (1995).pdf (1.3 MB)