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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.