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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!cc.gatech.edu!terminus!kzin
- From: kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd)
- Subject: SparcBook Laptop Price Drop
- Message-ID: <kzin.722018967@cc.gatech.edu>
- Summary: 30 to 45% price drop
- Keywords: pricedrop, sparcbook
- Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu
- Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:49:27 GMT
- Lines: 36
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-
- Funny thing happened to me this morning. I've long been looking
- over the SparcBook Laptop. The backlit Greyscale, Color, and Active
- Matrix Color systems have all had my attention. Last night I thought
- that before I commit myself to buying a SparcClassic or Sparcstation LX,
- I should call them back and see if they're goinng to respond to Sun's
- price drop.
-
- Well, this morning, they called ME. The people at Tadpole seem to
- be very attentive. I think they're in the place sun was a few years ago.
- They know they need to please us (the consumer) in order to get off the
- ground.
-
- They now have an LC model. It comes as a base unit of 180mb HD,
- greyscale screen, and 8mb memory. That costs3950. add floppy for
- 750 and upto 16mb (max config for this system) is anohter950. It's not
- upgradable after you buy it (lower cost components)
-
- The 16 mb, 180 meg, floppy, greyscale system is now 6450 (BIG cut from 10500).
-
- They're working on a Tsunami system, the guy said..
-
- and best of all, they're going to continue to support and sell Solaris 1
- for a LONG time to come. :-)
-
- If you really want a system, give them a call :-)
-
- (oh, and most of their products have a 5% education discount. NOt a lot,
- but not bad).
-
- John
-
- John Rudd -- kzin@cc.gatech.edu ex- kzin@ucscb.ucsc.edu
- All opinions expressed here are my own, and no one elses.
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