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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
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- Subject: Re: PowerBooks...Are they reliable?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.194051.4971@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 19:40:51 GMT
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- danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny W. McCampbell) writes:
-
- >Hi! I just talked with a friend of mine who is a Certified
- >Macintosh Technician or something along those lines. Well
- >he told me that the PowerBooks are junk. He said that they
- >are constantly doing work on them. He said that the screens
- >or displays are really having problems.
-
- Well, about the only real complaints about PB screens that I have
- heard of with any regularity is the "dead pixel" problem on the Active
- Matrix Display for the 170. I have yet to hear any real complaints about
- the 140/145 screen.
-
- >This discouraged me a great deal as I am getting ready to
- >buy a PowerBook. Can anyone out there give me some good news
- >on PowerBooks.
-
- Well, that depends on what you call good news. The best news I've
- heard about the 180 is that it an the 160 both have video output
- capability and can both be hooked up to a mac with a special SCSI cord
- and be accessed as an external HD. Other than that, the only other "good
- news" is that the prices are continuing to drop.
-
- >I plan to buy a 180 when they come out. I do not have a personal Mac
- >right now and I was planning on the 180 to be my Mac for everything. I
- >was going to buy and external Monitor and put on it for home use. I
- >have a CI at work right now and really like it but I need portablity.
-
- Sounds like a good plan to me. I'm probably going to be doing much
- the same thing in a couple of years, but currently through my job I not
- only have a Quadra 950 on (under ;) my desk, but I also have full use of
- a 170 8/80. But this job is moving in 3 years so I'll be looking to get
- my own Mac by then.
-
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- -Hades (Brian V. Hughes)
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