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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
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- Subject: Re: PowerBooks - 210 v. 160 as Midrange champ
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.164531.16606@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:45:31 GMT
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- David_A._Schnider@bmug.org writes:
-
- >As I intend to buy a PB soon I have looked into this. My first idea was to
- >sell my desktop machine and get a duo with a dock. As it turns out, this
- >costs around $4000, maybe more. My next consideration was the 160. This
- >costs around $3000. (Both of these figures include accessories such as extra
- >battery, cahrger, case, and RAM). The 160 also comes with a built in drive
- >and a better monitor and trackball.
-
- This is really starting to bug me. Just because the Duo uses
- components that are slightly smaller than those of a regular powerbook
- does not mean that said components are inferior in any way to their
- slightly larger counterparts.
-
- >The advantage of the dock is that it is expandable. That is the real
- >division.
-
- Exactly, this is precicely the main advantage of the DuoDock. There
- are other advantages to the MiniDock.
-
- --
- -Hades (Brian V. Hughes)
- "No sir, I didn't like it."
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