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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 (was Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing)
- Message-ID: <02o203vF449P00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 22:21:31 GMT
- References: <D2150035.93mg41@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <torrie.711784675@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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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.
-
- Add me to the list. I decided on the 100 because I wanted the smallest,
- lightest thing I could get (and it was cheaper besides). The only reason
- I even considered the 140 was because of the color QuickDraw support.
- But then, most likely, by the time that color screens get low enough in
- price that I would have considered upgrading a 140, there will be enough
- other significant improvements that I'll want to get a whole new machine
- anyway.
-
- (It does make me wince, however, that the 100's are now going for less than
- HALF the price I paid for mine . . .)
-
- --James Preston
-