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From: rc2o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Lee Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: re: re: Why 68000?
Message-ID: <0ZpnPge00WB2ILZFJz@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 22:21:32 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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     The power consumption is totally bogus.  The current battery pack can
run for 6 hours.  At most the 68030 would draw twice as much.  I would
certainly prefer a 3hour Mac II than a 6 hour SE.  What about back up
batteries.  You could just put in as many as you want just have an external
charger.
     Fact is that Apple could not introduce one being that they would have
to charge so much that no one would want one.  Perhaps in the near future
they will but I do not think that they thought it was a good marketting
scheme at the present time, which I agree with.

Rich