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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 (was Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing)
- Message-ID: <DFaDoB32w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 14:38:48 BST
- References: <torrie.711784675@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Strange. My local dealer has stacks of PB100's in stock, but doesn't bother
- to stock 140's and 170's.
-
- > 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.
-
- I chose the 100 for the lead-acid battery, the smaller size and lighter
- weight, and because if I bought anything more expensive I wouldn't want to
- carry it anywhere...
-
-
- mathew
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