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From: sdfusc@mac.cc.macalstr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: We Want PORTABLE!
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.021752.205@mac.cc.macalstr.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 08:17:52 GMT
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Organization: Macalester College
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In article <4588@orbit.cts.com>, chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
> sdfusc@mac.cc.macalstr.edu writes:
>>In article <1991Apr7.230814.5885@cc.helsinki.fi>, ronkko@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>>> There are portable IBM-compatibles, a portable Mac and even a portable Atari...
>>
>>	The portable Atari isn't really a portable...it doesn't have the
>>ability to run without being plugged in.  No batteries.  There was supposed
>>to be a way to run it off a bunch of d-cells, but that was so cumbersome that
>>the idea was dropped.  
>>
>>I think there is a simple reason for the absence of a portable Amiga..no
>>perceived market.  To small a base.
> 
> 
> I have a market for it.  business!  I've seriously thought of taking my old
> 500 (when i had it) apart and trying to stuff it into a portable case.  this
> way i could easily bring it into work with me, and get work done on the Amigga
> when i had time, or even use it to show my superiors the quality of the amiga.
>  Imagine if everyone started bringing their portable amiga's into work. 
> imagine how much exposure it will get to busineses.  I have spare time at work
> and would love the ability to work on projects without lugging the 2500 into
> work.
> 
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	The question remains, however, as to how large a market made up of 
people like you or I (I would want one too) really is, and wether or not that
justifies the expenditure/motherboard redesign it would take to truly make the
Amiga portable.  I've heard that the NMOS chips in the Amiga are power hungry,
and that it would take a chip redesign to truly allow portable power (correct 
me someone, if I'm wrong); also, I don't know if the LCD display technology
exists to cheaply put together an Amiga that could use Amiga graphics.
	The other option would be to create a luggagable perversion without
battery power like Atari's STacy, and I don't know if this would be
worth the effort; perhaps with an internal HD like ICD's ADIDE it might work.