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From: gh0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gordon Hester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: outbound mac laptop
Message-ID: <oa2CeAe00Uh701omhf@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 90 15:09:00 GMT
Organization: School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I just saw an ad for a laptop made by "outbound" in Macweek (pp. 14-15).
It looks nice (small, though not clear how thick, backlit LCD, 9
pounds), but the way it works is a bit unusual. It seems you take the
ROM's out of a mac plus or SE and put them in this thing. When it is
conected to your mac, your macs performance is supposedly enhanced. When
it's not, it runs as a standalone laptop that can run your mac
applications.

Now this all sounds very nice to me. (MInd you, I just have the ad to go
on.) I need a laptop for business travel, and I use macs at home and in
my office. But I want to be able to use my mac at home when I don't have
the laptop around, too, and I want to be able to use files on the laptop
both at home and at my office (where I'll have a mac 2 soon).

I realize this is a brand new product (or at least I think it is), and
perhaps nobody else knows any details about it, either. But 2 questions
occur to me immediately. 1- can I just buy the roms for the laptop and
still use my mac plus at home independently _and_ with the laptop, and
2- can I use it with a mac 2 at all?

I'm sending for some info on this product; maybe I'll be answering my
own questions soon.

gordon hester