Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Subject: Re: Impact of notebooks on low end? Message-ID: <1991Jun25.073839.6421@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA References: <1991Jun24.135247.17678@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 07:38:39 GMT Lines: 24 gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu writes: >In article , norton@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Norton Chia) writes: >>With the upcoming Apple notebooks, I think it may steal sales from Apple's >>low end offerings like the Classic and LC. Opinions? >Nice opinions. You may wish to check this week's MacWEEK (I got on CI$ and >read the stories early on ZMAC). They speak of how Apple Marketing is >concerned about the exact same thing, and that many people think that the new >notebooks will steal thunder from the low-end Macs. >Heck, a "Classic Portable" weighing in at 5.4 lbs with a 8.5x11x1.5" form >factor for under $2000 retail just might do it, too... I don't know whether Apple should be worried about this or not. A friend of mine went to a talk recently, where it was predicted that desktop PCs would be almost extinct in five years or so, totally displaced by portables and notebooks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "And in the death, as the last few corpses lay rotting in the slimy thoroughfare, the shutters lifted in inches, high on Poacher's Hill..."