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Subject: Re: Notebook computers
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Date: 14 Feb 91 20:40:41 GMT
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In article <1089@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
> I would much rather see a NeXT notebook with the PenPoint OS
> than a simple NeXT portable.
> 
	Yeah, me too (so long as it's black:-)

	I was excited about the PenPoint OS too.  It has received a lot of
	other press (including a Gasee article in MacWeek).  It
	is the only really personal computer concept going right now that is
	also well-mannered.  That is, the so-called portable or laptop PCs
	that I've seen (heard) have intrusively noisey keyboards and are
	thereby unusable during meetings.  You also won't be able to quietly
	take notes with your speech recognition computer either (although
	maybe it will be able to take the notes for you).

	I'm also pretty excited about the drawing tools in this environment.
	No GUI I've ever tried has been able to match the hand drawings I
	produce for sheer illegibility:^)  Well, anyway, I can make them out
	if too much time hasn't passed and I think drawing tools will be
	available in the PenPoint environment that might permit me to make
	my drawings and then salvage them into something legible to others
	in a small fraction of the time it takes me to produce something with
	the likes of MacDraw.

	I'd really like to see NeXT be a player with a nice interface between
	my desktop NeXT and my PenPoint-based NeXT system.

c.f.waltrip

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Opinions expressed are my own.