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- From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Street price data points, PB160
- Keywords: PowerBook, data path, resolution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.021048.2479@reed.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 02:10:48 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov10.021048.2479
- References: <SJE.92Nov9153522@xylos.ma30.bull.com>
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- In article <SJE.92Nov9153522@xylos.ma30.bull.com> sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com
- (Steven J. Edwards) writes:
- > There's been a lot of press about the new Powerbook models in the
- > various media. Here's some street price information for the PB160 at
- > a retail outlet in southern New Hampshire:
- >
- > Memory Disk Price
- > Mbyte Mbyte US$
- > ------ ----- -----
- > PB160 4 40 2400
- > PB160 4 80 2700
- > PB160 4 120 3000
- >
- > Prices rounded to nearest US$10.
- >
- > And on a different note:
- >
- > Why is it that the pixel dimensions of the PBs are 640 by 400 instead
- > of the nearly universal 640 by 480 for the PC notebook market? Also,
- > is it true that all the new PBs (actually, every model except the
- > 100) have 32 bit wide data memory paths?
- >
- > [The above opinions expressed are my own; not necessarily held by others.]
- > == Steven J. Edwards Bull HN Information Systems Inc. ==
- > == (508) 294-3484 300 Concord Road MS 820A ==
- > == sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com Billerica, MA 01821 USA ==
- > "That Government which Governs the Least, Governs Best." -- Thomas Jefferson
-
- The pixel dimensions are to keep the screen at Macintosh resoulution
- (around 72dpi). If it were made 640x480, the pixels wouldn't be square in the
- area now taken up (the screen would be small or odd shaped if at 640x480 and
- square in another configuration). DOS notebooks are almost always 640x480 since
- they support VGA only. VGA isn't particular about resolution (and most DOS
- programs are designed to be readable at low and high resolution). Yes, the
- PowerBooks have 32-bit paths.
-
- --
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