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At 01:40 AM 5/7/98 , Aaron W. Brown wrote: >Randal Whittle said: >> Seeing the Sony, the HP Sojourn, the Micron Go Book, etc...I'm guessing >>IBM will replace the 560 around then with an even lighter/thinner model. >>The "category" of Thin & Light will be preserved, IBM will just improve on >>it. The 600 is the "almost as thin & light but also full-featured modular" >>category. > >Ah yes, so in 6 months we can look forward to the Really UltraThinBayTM. >Modular? I guess. Swapable parts are great but it doesn't work when you >buy into the shape of the week. You'll note that the Sojourn and GoBook use "slices" to add features--and in so doing, they add a hell of a lot of extra size and weight. On either of them, you can add a "multimedia slice" and a "battery slice", but by the time you do so, you're up to more than TP-600 weight and have exceeded its thickness significantly. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think there's room for two separate categories here--the one that's mostly thin & light, but allows for some "plug-ins" and the one that's super thin & light that allows for extra baggage to be attached to it--turning it into a heavy beast. The former is always going to be less expensive for the feature set, as the "slices" that get added on to the latter are tremendously expensive. ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California