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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: New Macintosh Duo's
- Message-ID: <mike_steiner-051192112612@192.35.50.131>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:27:32 GMT
- References: <1992Oct23.094208.70924@bmug.org> <Bwx75C.HEJ@access.digex.com> <PREECE.92Nov3090729@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
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- In article <PREECE.92Nov3090729@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>,
- preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) wrote:
- >
- > In article <Bwyo6s.DJs@access.digex.com> hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
- >
- > | FLOPPY.... I meant FLOPPY. The 160 has a nice integral floppy drive.
- > | And all the ports I could ever want (and NOT want). With a duo I have to
- > | spring for a dock. See the Duo isn't really a portable machine. It's a
- > | machine that is both your desktop machine AND a portable. That's a win if
- > | you don't have a desktop machien already. But if you want to hack on the
- > | road I think the 160 has a superior, sharper screen... a larger and easier
- > | to handle trackball and keyboard and no extra investment down the road.
- > ---
- > I may be monomaniacal on this, but 2 pounds seems like a *big* win to
- > me. Like maybe the difference between bothering to take the machine
- > with me on a lot of my trips and leaving it home. I would have thought
- > that the networking capability would be enough to make up for the lack
- > of a floppy -- at home plug it into the desktop machine you already said
- > you had; on the road, in a real pinch, go down to Kinkos and plug it
- > into one of their Macs, if you really need to read a floppy.
-
- There are plusses and minuses for each; what works for one person may not
- work for another. That's why Apple made both of them--it gives us a
- choice.
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- |Now that I have a reader that can do .sigs, I can't think of a witty |
- |one to put here, so I won't. All normal disclaimers apply. |
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