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From: chris@nthropy.uucp (Chris Chauvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Portable Unix box!
Keywords: sony, news, etc
Message-ID: <1991May10.155141.24235@nthropy.uucp>
Date: 10 May 91 15:51:41 GMT
References: <1991May10.005215.7074@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: chris@nthropy.UUCP (Chris Chauvin)
Organization: Nth Graphics, Ltd.
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In article <1991May10.005215.7074@sugar.hackercorp.com> jasona@sugar.hackercorp.com (Jason Asbahr) writes:
>It's smaller than a cube but thicker than a station -- it's Sony's answer
>(read as market niche) to the NeXT...the NEWS 3250 laptop.
> 
>The display is a back-lit LCD 11" monochrome at 1120 x 780 resolution.
>A mouse is included (how nice of them - smirk) and X Windows and Motif
>are bundled.  The drives are 1.44MB and can read MS-DOS and Unix formats.
>
>I must really be out of touch, because seeing the NEWS laptop at the OTC
>was a mild shock.  If Sony can put out a laptop, so can NeXT!  :)

 Did you look at the update rate on the LCD screen?  I hear it is rather slow.
Supposedly, the cursor gets really big when you move the mouse so that you
can follow it.  I think maybe this is the reason NeXT hasn't built a laptop.
I haven't seen a 3250, so this is all conjecture.
 
>          -Jason Asbahr
>           jasona@sugar.hackercorp.com
>           jasona@nuchat.sccsi.com
>-- 

Chris Chauvin
chris@nth.com