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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: PB 100 and Graphics Apps?
- Message-ID: <14834@claris.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 21:15:41 GMT
- References: <4891@gold.gvg.tek.com>
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- In article <4891@gold.gvg.tek.com>, brandonl@gold.gvg.tek.com (Brandon Lovested) writes:
- >
- > With all of this frenzied talk about PowerBook 100 4/40 with disk drive
- > for $900, my interest is piqued. The price point makes it very tempting.
- >
- > I have one question:
- >
- > Has anyone tried to use a drawing application
- > (like MacDraw) on a PB-100?
- >
- > I don't think I have any illusions about how well these programs will
- > run on the PB-100....very slowly. My principle set of interests focus around
- > idea processing, in which I rely upon word processing and drawing applications.
- > I was just hoping someone out there could tell me "Yeah, it's slow for
- > complicated things, but ok for simple drawings." (Which I tend to expect)
- > Or, maybe I'll hear, "Oh, geez, forget it, man. Bag that idea right now.
- > No way. Uh-uh. Nada. Nope. I'm outta here."
-
- If you have an SE, try it on that; then halve the time. The PB100 is approx-
- imately twice as fast as an SE. I say approximately because I don't know what
- effect having an LCD monitor instead of a CRT monitor has on the speed.
-