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- <text id=89TT2484>
- <title>
- Sep. 25, 1989: Business Notes:Computers
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- COMPUTERS
- Have Mac, Will Travel
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Almost from the day Apple Computer introduced its Macintosh
- line in 1984, aficionados clamored for a portable version of
- the popular machine. This week Apple will finally unveil one.
- The delay was caused by the difficulty of producing a
- lightweight Mac with a graphics display as vivid as the larger
- models'. To achieve that clarity, insiders say, the new machine
- has an active-matrix screen, in which each of its thousands of
- picture elements will be controlled by an individual transistor.
- Instead of Apple's famous mouse, the new Mac has a
- cursor-control device called a trackball mounted on the
- keyboard.
- </p>
- <p> Users of the new Mac (estimated price: $6,000 or more) will
- have to develop their biceps to handle the machine, which
- weighs about 16 lbs., compared with 4 lbs. for small
- IBM-compatible portables. Apple is taking pains to call the
- machine a portable rather than a laptop, but computer-industry
- wags have already dubbed it a "luggable." Even so, experts
- believe the Mac is likely to be a walkaway success.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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