From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Tue Apr 07 1998 - 22:37:00 EDT
On Mon, 06 Apr 98 22:52:11 -0800, Paul Khoury wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Apr 98 21:56:36 EDT, Robert Dewar wrote:
>
>><< The larger truth above & beyond all of this is IBM simply took too long
>>bringing the 701 on-line into the market. By the time they did, market
>>trends *were* indeed scooting toward the spectrum of features that Robert
>>describes. Another issue is price. Long before the fire sale prices, the
>>701's sold for a *huge* premium--one of the most expensive models. IBM
>>blew it on that one.
>>>>
>>
>>I am typical of the kind of customer IBM is aiming at with high level
>>notebooks (many of the readers of this newsgroup are not :-)
>
>Well, I might consider myself with a higher end notebook, but non-IBM
>(just IBM parts).
>
>BTW, does anyone on this list use a Power ThinkPad running NT or AIX?
>>
>>I found the price of the 701 perfectly reasonable. I would have bought one
>>immediately *if* I could have taken the memory up beyond the totally
>>unacceptable 40meg limit at the time and *if* it had had a Pentium.
>>
>>But now, the form factor is of no interest to me, since a 10.4" screen
>>is simply too small.
>>
>Well, if you're doing graphics work, I can imagine that, but for me, it's huge,
>considering I'm using a 12" CRT anyways (my 14" CRT has a bad cable
>and burn in).
>
>>I find the 560 much more attractive. But as long as I can get more power
>>for more weight, it's worth it to me, which is why I bought my 770.
>>
>I agree. Even though my SPARCbook is 7.5 lbs, with NO battery, it's my most
>powerful machine, and it's very much worth the weight for the power.
>
>>P.S. just came back from trip to London and Paris, how nice to watch DVD
>>movies on my notebook on the plane and train. By the way, contrary to what
>>I had read in the documentation, there is no problem in playing movies
>>in a custom sized non-full-screen window.
>>
>>
>And this was in OS/2?
>
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