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- From: rkay@ausom.oz.au (Richard Kay)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Info On New PowerBooks
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.113139.2386@ausom.oz.au>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 11:31:39 GMT
- Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne
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- All those people starving for information about the new Macintosh
- PowerBooks may find this stuff from MacWeek interesting:
-
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- DOCKABLE DUO READY TO JOIN NOTEBOOK CAST
-
-
- Here are some extracts from MacWeek 08/10/92:
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-
-
- POWERBOOK DUO:
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- The dockable design will include a backlit supertwist display measuring
- about 9 inches diagonally, offering a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels
- and delivering 16 shades of grey. Apple will reportedly offer both a 33
- MHz version to be called the Duo 230, and a 25 MHz version called the
- 210. The Duo will support up to 24 Mbytes of RAM.
-
- A Duo with 4 Mbytes of RAM and an 80 Mbyte hard disk is expected to
- cost less than US$3000. A 120 Mbyte configuration will also be
- available.
-
- Apple will offer two docking mechanisms, called the Duo Dock and Duo
- MiniDock, which will be available separately.
-
- The Duo Dock, which is intended for use on the desktop, includes two
- NuBus slots, an additional hard drive, a floppy drive, on-board video
- that can display eight-bit color on a 16-inch display, and the standard
- array of ports.
-
- The MiniDock, designed primarily to provide the standard Mac ports for
- the on-the-road Duos, also supports eight-bit color on a 16-inch
- display. The MiniDock reportedly does not include a hard drive or
- floppy but will have ports for external storage devices.
-
- Users will dock the Duos as if they are inserting a giant floppy disk -
- a mechanism draws the PowerBook into the dock and locks it down.
-
-
-
- POWERBOOK 160 AND 180:
-
- The PowerBook 160 is expected to include a backlit supertwist LCD
- screen that supports 16 levels of grey, a 25 MHz 68030 without a math
- coprocessor and a video-out port that can display eight-bit color on a
- 13-inch monitor.
-
- The 180, according to sources, will have a 33 MHz 68030 with a math
- coprocessor and will support eight-bit color on a 16-inch display.
-
- Like the PowerBook 100 the 160 and 180 can act as an external SCSI drive
- when cabled to another Mac.
-
- Both the 160 and the 180 will come in a number of configurations,
- starting at a minimum of 4 Mbytes of RAM expandable to 14 Mbytes and an
- 80 Mbyte or 120 Mbyte hard disk. Prices for the models are expected to
- range from about US$2600 to US$3500.
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-
-
- POWERBOOK 145
-
- The recently announced PowerBook 145 will continue to hold up the low
- end of the product line. The 170 is expected to be discontinued when
- the 180 ships.
-
- Apple declined to comment.
-
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