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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: <sgXkoB7w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 17:39:39 BST
- References: <02o203vF449P00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Exactly. I reckoned on any Mac I bought being obsolete in two years' time.
- By that time, I confidently predict Apple will have smaller, lighter
- notebooks using RISC technology, probably with colour screens, and almost
- certainly with much longer battery life.
-
- > (It does make me wince, however, that the 100's are now going for less than
- > HALF the price I paid for mine . . .)
-
- Yes. I have to admit I was a bit pissed off to see the machine going for 2/3
- what I paid for it, only a couple of months after I bought it. I think I'm
- over the shock now... after all, I did think the price I paid was fair for
- the machine I got. I wish they'd send me my *&%^ing Hypercard, though.
-
- Apple are playing a VERY dangerous game. People who buy PowerBooks are
- obviously clued in to what a good idea portable computing power is, and are
- exactly the sort of people one would expect to want a Newton device. But
- after being stung on the PB100, there's absolutely no way I'm going to buy a
- Newton when it comes out. I'll wait six months to a year and buy it for a
- third of the price.
-
-
- mathew
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- sense of rampant impropriety." -- 'Fortran Five', Simon G. Lawrence Leonard
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