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- From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
- Subject: Powerbook 100 (was Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing)
- Message-ID: <torrie.711784675@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: torrie@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
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- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <D2150035.93mg41@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 05:57:55 GMT
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- peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
-
- >And remember who engineered the PB 100 - Sony. The PB 100 is in many
- >ways a price reduced (and weight reduced!) Macintosh Portable. Sony
- >took the basic design of the portable and did a rev 2.0. They did
- >a great job if you ask me.
-
- Me too. I still don't really understand why practically nobody
- else agrees. I keep reading reports from Apple dealers about how
- the PB 100 is a "dog", and that it's now on the short-list for
- elimination.
- But I love it! I get the feeling that the problem is that the main
- market for PB100s (without a built-in floppy) is for people who
- already own desktop Macs (such as myself). And that most of these
- people have enough money to buy a PB170 so they just buy that.
- Me, I just like the overall design of the 100. It looks much nicer
- than the 140/170, even something as subtle as the curved front (unlike
- the 140/170 box). I have a 140 as well as my 100, but I always take
- the 100 whenever I go anywhere.
- The PB 100 deserves to be much more popular than it is.
-
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- Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu
- Embrace rationalism, reject superstition. Break away from the past.
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