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At 10:12 AM 9/11/97 CDT, Abbas Bandali wrote: >*apparently* HP intends on marketing a 3.1lb, .75" thick sub-notebook with >12.1" TFT, 200Mhz ... in partnership with Mitsubishi, early in '98. > >My 2 cents : > >* it ain't as sleek as the 560 (http://www.hp.com/omnibook/images/obflat.jpg) >* it looks flimsy (http://www.hp.com/omnibook/images/obcool.jpg) It looks absolutely beautiful to me. Nicer (judging from the pics) than my 560 (though I still think they should license the trackpoint from IBM rather than use that silly touchpad). >I have never been a fan of HP - I prefer Apple printers to HP, and Epson >scanners to HP. Will we be in for a shocker in '98 ??? Au contraire--I think HP makes some of the best equipment available. They make the best calculators and the best palmtops hands-down. Their printers and scanners may not necessarily be the "best" on the market, but there's no question that they lead the way and set the standard--all the rest are also-ran copycats that sometimes improve on the pioneering effort. On the PC front, they're hit and miss. The old model 150 touchscreen was a pioneering effort (used 3 1/2" diskettes almost a full year before the Mac came along), while their early Vectra PC-compatibles were painfully proprietary. ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California