[Duo2400] Re: Not really smaller

[Larry Friedman]

True, even the iBook's size didn't bother me, just the width and the G3.


On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 09:55  AM, Eric L. Strobel wrote:

> on 1/8/03 9:41 AM, Larry Friedman at larry.s.f at mindspring.com wrote:
>
>> Guys, don't believe the marketing spin and look at the actual numbers.
>> Hold an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper next to your Duo/2400, now make it 
>> an
>> inch and a quarter thick. That's how big the 12" is. Volumetrically 
>> "X"
>> x "Y" x "Z" it is smaller though.
>
> I doubt anyone was thinking that it was enormously smaller.  After all,
> there's a certain minimum size involved given that you want a 12" 
> screen and
> a keyboard (and a battery, and RAM, and a CPU, and...).  The point, at 
> least
> for me, is that here's (finally!) a Powerbook that's very close to the 
> Duo
> form factor, that's got pretty much all the features of the high-end
> machines.  That really hasn't happened since the Duo/2400 era.
>
> - Eric.
>
> -- 
>
> Eric Strobel (fyzycyst at NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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