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From: mc4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Two New Computer Announcements - CeBIT
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Date: 25 Mar 91 19:28:18 GMT
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 24-Mar-91 Re: Two New Computer
> Announ.. Tony Gray@pieman.compser (1269)

> Add all of these things and you'd just about require a box the size of
> stacy. I don't think you could use these (or any) notebook systems
> as a full system - you'd need some "base station" or at least another
> ST to exchange data with, otherwise you just have to squeeze too much
> hardware into too little a space.  

	Not true. Again, pick up a copy of computer shopper and lookit the
specs for any PCnotebook out there. Almost all have external VGA, an
internal 1.44 meg dirve, 20-40 meg HD, some have an ISA bus, And a
cartidge would not add all that much real estate. If GBS made a ROM
piggyback board, I wouldn't care about the acartridge, though! And yet
they still wiegh less than 5 pounds, and are VERY small. If it (ST
notebook) does not have these features, who is Atari planning to sell
these things to. The Germans, that's who. How much do you wanna bet the
US won't even see them before Apple and IBM have 68060/80686 machines
the size of a broach, with 3D virtual holoscreens, 26 Meg of ram, a
300Meg static ram disk, and molecular memory cards. Atari: less power
for less money. This thing would sell like mad if they could get it out
in time (ie. before apple comes out with its soon to be released mac
notebook) but I doubt atari learns anything from the past, and so I do
not think this will happen. After all, how many gameboy adds did I see
on TV last night? 6. How many Atari lynx adds have I seen on TV, ever?
0. So why is the lynx selling so badly? Hmmmm....
	Really the only problem see with the above is that it will decrease the
battery life somewhat. But with a slated battery life of over ten hours
at constant operation, and the PC notebooks havng less than three, I
doubt this is the main problem. PLEASE Atari corp, do it right this
time. Please?


				-geisha-