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- From: peter@norge.UUCP (Peter Espen)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: PowerBook 100 LCD screen replacement, the sad conclusion
- Message-ID: <563@norge.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 02:18:04 GMT
- References: <th6mblc.tcmay@netcom.com> <1992Aug17.032003.20298@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Aug18.162134.14701@mcs.drexel.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.162134.14701@mcs.drexel.edu> uyyifrah@mcs.drexel.edu (Y Yifrah [y^2]) writes:
- >I remember when PC compat "laptops" first came out, GRiD was one of the first
- >manufacturers of them, they made them TOUGH (so tough that make them to milspec
- >now for the Armed forces) but they cost about 4 time more that way... Having
- >.............
- >
- >Look at it this way, would you rather have a PB 100 with a plasic casse at
- >$800, or a Magnesium cased one with all sorts of shock control internals,
- >platium connects, the works for proabably triple or 4 times the cost...
- >
- >--
- > Yoram Yifrah -- uyyifrah@mcs.drexel.edu
- >
-
- We have a GRiD laptop at work for a job we are doing for a government
- facility. It has one of those Magnesium cases and IS designed to withstand
- a whole lot of G shock.....BUT it weighs a TON as laptop standards go. I
- think it probably even weighs a least twice as much as the original Mac
- Portable!!
-
- Peter Espen
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