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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Notebook Computers Dominate Comdex
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Nov20.161639.6403@tc.fluke.COM> <By1vnx.7HM@news.iastate.edu> <1992Nov21.060046.29546@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:29:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.060046.29546@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <By1vnx.7HM@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov20.161639.6403@tc.fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
- >>>barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >>>> The obvious questions are: when is Commodore going to develop a notebook
- >>>>Amiga??? Will it be when the growth of notebook sales has slowed and some
- >
- >>>As usual MB doesn't get it.
- >>
- >
- >> Commodore would be in the notebook computer market with a notebook Amiga
- >>if their engineers could develop one.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Marc, the quality of your posts is degenerating. I remember a time when
- >some of what you said made sense. You posted this information in, at times,
- >the wrong manner.
- >
- >But this is rediculous. "if their engineers could develop one" is simply
- >stupid. Their engineers could ceartinly put a battery pack on a A600.
-
- That is the stupidest statement I have heard for a LONG time. Putting a
- battery pack on an A600 would hardly give you a "notebook Amiga". It would
- give you a "barely luggable Amiga", as the battery required to power something
- as wasteful of power as a desktop computer would be similar in size and weight
- to a 12V car battery. It also would not give you a low-power LCD display.
-
- You do not realize the amount of engineering that would be involved in
- making a true notebook Amiga. Suffice it to say, designing a notebook Amiga
- would make the design of the A4000 look like child's play. It would require
- the complete re-engineering of the Amiga into 3.3V CMOS. Not just the custom
- chips would have to be redesigned into this technology, but all of the other
- chips as well. It would also require a higher degree of integration that
- anything Commodore's engineers have done with the Amiga so far.
-
- Perhaps you just do not realize what a notebook computer is. Most notebook
- computers weigh less than four pounds, including the LCD display, battery
- pack, and everything. By comparison, the A600 alone system unit alone probably
- weights far more than four pounds. Add a battery pack and LCD display and you
- are talking about 15-20 pounds. The latest notebook computers also have a
- VERY long battery life, thanks to the 3.3V CMOS technology I mentioned. An
- A600 with a battery pack light enough to be luggable would be lucky to last
- one hour.
-
- Please do not stick your foot so far into your moth next time. It must be
- embarassing for you.
-
- >________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura University of Chicago Medical School(M1)
- > "Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable
- > inevitable.." -George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"
- >
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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