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From: priol@irisa.fr (Thierry Priol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Two New Computer Announcements - CeBIT
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.101934.24671@irisa.fr>
Date: 28 Mar 91 10:19:34 GMT
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From article <2885@atari.UUCP>, by trh@atari.UUCP (T R Hall):

>      1) I didn't include a monitor port for a couple of reasons:
> 	A) Power
> 	    The graphics shifter/video drive circuitry uses almost as much
> 	    power as the rest of the system put together. Since the machine
>             is specifically designed for PORTABLE usage, I made the (fairly
>             reasonable) assumption that you aren't going to carry a color/mono
>             monitor around with you.

Have you an idea about the battery life for the ST Book ?


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