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- From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: I want a Powerbook that's powerful!
- Keywords: pen, powerbook, color, 040
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.233640.24495@reed.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 23:36:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov11.233640.24495
- References: <1992Nov11.152823.2081@ucbeh.san.uc.edu>
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- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <1992Nov11.152823.2081@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> cho@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
- writes:
- >
- > Greetings,
- >
- > I have a need to purchase a notebook or penbook for meetings that
- > is a Mac, has a color screen, is lightweight, and can fax send/receive
- > messages (cellular modem/phone). Also, a pen capability would be ideal.
- >
- > Does the Mac make pen machines yet? Are there color notebooks available?
- > I like the Palmpad that GRID makes, so one that size would be great,
- > but I want it to be Macintosh, and while I'd like the pen, I'd need the
- > modem aspect.
- >
- > Is there such a device that anyone knows about or can direct me to?
- >
- > Thanks,
- >
- > -Pamela Cho-
-
-
- Oh, don't we all... Rumor has it that a color version of the PowerBook
- will appear mid to late next year (not with the feb releases). Macintosh does
- not make pen machines, although the not-yet-released Newton might qualify as
- one (its a PDA instead of inventory/form as most GRIDs). Any device the size of
- the palmtop could not be a Macintosh except in name (what's a Mac if not a
- finder, menu bar, icons, etc.). Hopefully Motorola will finally finish the 3V
- version of the 68040 and we'll see a '040 color PowerBook late next year
- (however, I'm not holding my breath...).
-
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- Robert Seymour rseymour@reed.edu
- Departments of Physics and Philosophy
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