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Re: Why no third party solutions?
- To: tp750@CS.UTK.EDU
- Subject: Re: Why no third party solutions?
- From: ychou (Sean Chou)
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 94 02:10:04 -0500
> Anyone wanna wager that Apple Powerbooks sell more units than
>do IBM ThinkPads?
No wager, this is a fact. Only recently have IBM and Compaq began
to even touch the Apple record. Suprisingly (or not), many, many
Powerbook owners are PC users regularly who just went over.
> If true, this would explain the ton of 3rd party add-ons for the
>Powerbooks.
Still...there are just SOOO many 3rd party stuff for Powerbooks and
nearly NONE for PC notebooks. I could see proportional differences
but this is a landslide.
>> What I'd really like to see is a mini-dock with SCSI on it. The regular
>
> Me too. ;)
Wouldn't we all? I think that's part of the key to the success of
the Powerbooks -- built-in everything -- SCSI, sound, ethernet...
The Thinkpads represent the best from the PC world, but it's still
not really comparable in terms of an all-in-one unit. Let's keep
our fingers crossed!
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Sean Chou / schou@uiuc.edu / CompuServe 73672,2111