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Scarce, highly sought-after Apple PowerBook 170 laptop computer produced in a limited edition of approximately 500 units for the Japanese Ladies Professional Golf Association (JLPGA) tournament in 1992, featuring a unique, playful colorway: the body and screen bezel are primarily dark blue, with a white lid and bottom case, yellow hinge, red sliding panels, and green rotating feet and latch slider. The laptop also features a bilingual English/Japanese keyboard, as it was produced for a Japanese organization. Other than the special color scheme, the JLPGA PowerBook 170 offers standard specifications for the model, with a 9.8-inch active matrix display, 25MHz 68030 processor, up to 8MB of RAM, 2.5″ SCSI HD, and a built-in modem. The unit is untested and in very good to fine cosmetic condition: one of the green plastic feet's rotating mechanisms is broken, the red hinged door panel on the rear is missing (a common PowerBook 170 ailment), and there is some chipping to the rainbow Apple logo on the lid; the trackball may have been replaced, as it is gray rather than yellow.
In the Macworld column 'Six of the rarest Macs,' Benj Edwards observes: 'In 1992, Apple manufactured approximately 500 multicolored PowerBook 170 models to commemorate the 1992 JLPGA golf tournament in Japan. If you ever set your hands upon this colorful machine, you’ll have yourself quite a prize. Apple must have had a field day picking the colors for this machine. It sports a mostly blue body with a white lid and base, red battery doors and contrast sliders, yellow hinge caps and trackball, and green elevating feet. Other than all that, it appears to be a relatively unassuming PowerBook 170.' On the other hand, the editors of Fortune magazine named it one of the '6 ugliest Apple products,' writing: 'More the product of a questionable color scheme than poor industrial design, this commemorative Mac is extremely rare. Some 500 were made in honor of the JLPGA golf tournament in Japan.'
