Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mc4c+ From: mc4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Choi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Two New Computer Announcements - CeBIT Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 22:03:16 GMT References: <1991Mar14.033302.10763@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu> <1991Mar17.095612.26923@ariel.unm.edu>, <2867@atari.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: <2867@atari.UUCP> > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 22-Mar-91 Re: Two New Computer > Announ.. T R Hall@atari.UUCP (1095) > As the designer of said notebook-ST(e), I have held off introducing > the subject, but as long as you brought it up ... > The "Announced List Price" of the basic 1 MByte system RAM, 20 MByte > IDE hard drive (no internal floppy, alas) system is $2000.00, with > production > slated for July/August (actually, the delay is mostly to cut the steel > tools for the plastic). Hey, guy, good work! But... Why no monitor port, I want colour graphics! And a floppy drive is a must. almost all PC notebooks got 'em, and if Atari ever wants to sell to anyone other than current atari faithful, they had better follow the competition. DS/DD is archaic! We need 1.44 meg, not just for this notebook, but for all ST/TT's. I write this in the hope that enough external pressure will force a redesign. Also, without a cartridge port, unless D.Small makes his internal emulator, there will be no Mac market. This is too bad. BTW, I have STacy, and so I know how badly Atari can screw up in the portable market! -GEISHA- P.S. but I want one anyway!