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On Mon, 06 Apr 98 22:52:11 -0800, Paul Khoury wrote: >On Mon, 6 Apr 98 21:56:36 EDT, Robert Dewar wrote: > >><< The larger truth above & beyond all of this is IBM simply took too long >>bringing the 701 on-line into the market. By the time they did, market >>trends *were* indeed scooting toward the spectrum of features that Robert >>describes. Another issue is price. Long before the fire sale prices, the >>701's sold for a *huge* premium--one of the most expensive models. IBM >>blew it on that one. >>>> >> >>I am typical of the kind of customer IBM is aiming at with high level >>notebooks (many of the readers of this newsgroup are not :-) > >Well, I might consider myself with a higher end notebook, but non-IBM >(just IBM parts). > >BTW, does anyone on this list use a Power ThinkPad running NT or AIX? >> >>I found the price of the 701 perfectly reasonable. I would have bought one >>immediately *if* I could have taken the memory up beyond the totally >>unacceptable 40meg limit at the time and *if* it had had a Pentium. >> >>But now, the form factor is of no interest to me, since a 10.4" screen >>is simply too small. >> >Well, if you're doing graphics work, I can imagine that, but for me, it's huge, >considering I'm using a 12" CRT anyways (my 14" CRT has a bad cable >and burn in). > >>I find the 560 much more attractive. But as long as I can get more power >>for more weight, it's worth it to me, which is why I bought my 770. >> >I agree. Even though my SPARCbook is 7.5 lbs, with NO battery, it's my most >powerful machine, and it's very much worth the weight for the power. > >>P.S. just came back from trip to London and Paris, how nice to watch DVD >>movies on my notebook on the plane and train. By the way, contrary to what >>I had read in the documentation, there is no problem in playing movies >>in a custom sized non-full-screen window. >> >> >And this was in OS/2? > >-- >Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org >Sent from my P75 Server running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 6 >There are 27 Processes with 93 Threads. >This machine's uptime is 3d 9h 47m 21s 539ms. > -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 5 There are 27 Processes with 95 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 1h 22m 7s 843ms.