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- From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
- Subject: Re: PowerBook 145 vs PowerBook 170
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.044130.16363@utdallas.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:41:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug29.215614.1450@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ccy@po.CWRU.Edu (Cheung C. Yue) writes:
- >
- >I just found out at our University bookstore about the existence
- >of the PowerBook 145 (4/80 for about $2000). All the clerk could
- >tell me was that the screen is the same as that on the 170 (I
- >guess active matrix display), but he could tell me nothing else.
- >Can anyone help? Is the 145 a 16 Mhz 68030 machine? Does it not
- >have a co-processor just like the 140? Thanks for your info.
- >
-
- The screen is the major DIFFERENCE between the 145 and 170. The
- 145 is passive matrix, like the 140.
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- The 145 is a 25 Mhz machine, like the 170.
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- The 145 does NOT have an FPU, unlike the 170
-
- Regards,
- Tom Karches
- >ccy@po.cwru.edu
- >--
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