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From: laird@think.com (Laird Popkin)
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Subject: Re: What kind of a beast is the HP95?
Message-ID: <1991May1.233455.14391@Think.COM>
Date: 1 May 91 23:34:55 GMT
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In article <1991May1.014038.2163@eecs.nwu.edu> kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
>In article <1991Apr29.183820.27684@Think.COM> laird@think.com (Laird Popkin) writes:
>>My _personal_ opinion is that the Portfolio is sufficient
>>for most people's desires, and costs $400 less.
>
>To be fair, the street prices are only about $250 apart.

You're right -- sorry for the ommission.  A better comparison would be:

		List Price	Street Price
Portfolio	$299		$229
95LX		$699		$550 	(someone reported $510 or so, but they
					weren't shipping 95LX's yet)

So the 95LX seems to be about 2.4 to 2.2 times as expensive as the Portfolio.
I haven't decided which way to go -- I'm waiting to actually see the 95LX
in person, as that's the only way to judge the keyboard.
>
>-- 
>Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on
> kaufman        | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
>  @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
>                | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.     Roy Batty 

I loved that movie...

- Laird Popkin, Thinking Machines

Connection Machine: Massively parallel supercomputer.  Also a cool black
cube with more blinking lights than you can shake a stick at.