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BUSINESS, Page 57Business NotesCOMPUTERSHave Mac, Will Travel
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.
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.