5 Macintosh Powerbook 5300
Apple is known for their sleek and stunningly slim laptops, but this wasn’t always the case. While the PowerBook 5300 was at the cutting edge in 1996, its clunky design and relatively large footprint looks hilariously outdated compared to even the cheapest laptops available today.
But the PowerBook 5300 wasn’t cheap — it started at $2,300. That high price tag netted you a 100MHz CPU, 8MB of RAM (that’s right, megabytes), and some pretty massive bezels surrounding a grayscale LCD display for the base tier. Unfortunately for Apple, the PowerBook 5300 also ran into some problems with battery fires.