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From: chou@cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: note in April MacWorld on backlit Portable availability..
Message-ID: <15390@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 91 03:36:07 GMT
References: <CMM.0.88.668206838.werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu> <1991Mar7.120352.18549@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> <1991Mar10.003243.14295@idacom.uucp>
Reply-To: chou@june.cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou)
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In article <1991Mar10.003243.14295@idacom.uucp> rob@idacom.UUCP (Rob Chapman) writes:
>
> Of course the most obvious next question is: Can I upgrade my portable to a
> backlit screen?
>
> Rob

Yes.  But I heard it costs $1600!

I think the upgrade includes both the screen upgrade and 
a new ROM that lets you adjust the backlight brightness from
control panel.

The new portable also uses new pseudo static RAM that's expandable
to 9 meg total, available from 3rd party ONLY.  The pseudo static
RAM uses the same power as the old static RAM.

The screen upgrade does NOT enable you to use pseudo-static RAM.

Pai Chou
chou@june.cs.washington.edu