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At 17:58 5/10/95 -0400, >} I kind of figured that my next machine would be an IBM thinkpad PPC running >} OS2, when and if such a thing comes out. Is this in the cards? I heard >} that PPC's consume less power than the Pentium. Is this still true? What >} ever happened to IBMs vow to stay away from Pentiums? It must have taken >} them HOURS to eat their words :). As faw as I know, IBM has two SEPARATE team of people working for the Intel-based Thinkpads and the PPC based portables. I doubt IBM will ever leave the Intel based behind completely. I believe the first PPC notebook is due sometime this summer... late summer. The machine itself is almost ready, but OS/2 for Power is not. Some says it's slow and not stable.... takes 5 mins to boot then crash. As soon as the OS/2 team gets the version for PPC out, the whole 'war' will become very interesting. and PPC running NT will also be very interesting. I heard that the price of the PPC notebook will cost quite a bit, initially, it was in the 5 digit range, but i hope IBM will realize no one will buy a 5 $digit notebook....definitely not everyone can afford one. But it got some neat features such as built in CD-ROM and camera. Again, Applications is what it counts. Everyone (lay people) is so used to MS products that it will be difficult to use something on a non-MS system... Double non-ms is gonna driver some people nuts. Just thought I will write something to relax myself.... have a Final tomorrow. better start to work... ~~~~~~~~ WAI-SHAN LAM ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ waishan@ibm.net ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ Wai_Shan_Lam@Brown.edu ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ 72124.2644@CompuServe.Com ~~~~~~~~