If you're not planning on collecting a pile of PowerBooks high enough that you really shouldn't try to stack them . . . :-I

. . . I'd go for the 190 if you can bring it back to life. I'd also go with the grayscale display.

If you wait to find a 5300ce, it's already at 117MHz and the first PB ever to sport an 800x600 (beautiful active matrix) LCD.

With the two of those, you'd have the Alpha and Omega of that 1995-1996 product cycle case design.

You might want to get the 190cs, 5300 & 5300cs later. Definitely do so if you ever get your hands on the almost, but not quite, unobtanium Mustang ProtoBook. It was either the testbed for the 1400's larger display, the Low End Mac for the 1996-1997 product cycle or both, but never shipped.

Even without it you'd have:

190_______Passive Matrix GS

190cs_____Passive Matrix Color

5300______Passive Matrix GS

5300cs____Passive Matrix Color

5300c_____Active Matrix Color

5300ce____Active Matrix Color & 800 x 600

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