Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!masticol From: masticol@paul.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple Laptop - REALITY Keywords: laptop, Apple, reality Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 89 01:04:26 GMT References: <3116@watale.waterloo.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 Jay Gibson writes: > I have submitted two messages. This one: 'Apple Laptop - REALITY' and > the next: 'Apple Laptop - FANTASY'. The reason I chose these two > directions is that there WILL be a Laptop released in the summer, it will > be ~17 pounds and ~$6,500...that is the REALITY. A 17-pound laptop for $6500 is not a reality. It is another Apple Edsel. At 17 pounds, it is not even a laptop; it's half your baggage allotment to some places. At $6500, it's half the annual budget of some of the countries you'd take it to. (2.61538462E-3 ~= 17/6500 smiley.) OK, Sun, warm up yer soldering irons, Apple's letting you take another shot at them! If you can bring out a Sun laptop that weighs 8 pounds and costs $3500, you'll corner the market in iconic-interface laptop computers.