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From: perley@galaxy (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga LapTop from Commodore?
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Date: 2 May 90 21:43:26 GMT
References: <1990Apr28.095254.21294@csuchico.edu> <1990Apr30.163031.619@tc.fluke.COM>
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In-reply-to: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)

In article <1990Apr30.163031.619@tc.fluke.COM>, kurt@tc (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:

>    Hmmm.  If the 3000 has a small, laptop sized footprint, that's
>    interesting, but I suspect that it's the power drain of the chipset
>    more than the footprint that will determine whether there's a laptop
>    in commodore's future.  Power management's the thing in laptops.

If you are just thinking batteries, then yes.  Aren't there a lot of 
laptops that don't run on batteries?  There is a lot of utility in
having a system that is portable even if it needs AC or a cig lighter
plug to actually run.

One of amiga's big markets is supposed to be midi.  Any musician who
plays a different house every night would prefer a portable to a CPU
box + monitor + keyboard.

Maybe one of those deals with a "parking garage" that automatically 
hooks up the color monitor, power, scsi port, etc when you are at 
the "home base"

-don perley
perley@trub.crd.ge.com