[P1] 17" Laptops

[Fred Stevens K2FRD]

At 7:55 -0800 04/11/03, Allan Hise wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jack Rodgers wrote:
>
>>  On Nov 3, 2003, at 11:39 PM, Brian Pearce wrote:
>>
>>  > There are many, many reasons that Apple only hold a small share of the
>>  > larger PC market, but I doubt this is one of them.
>>
>>  Apple's business decisions are one reason why Apple has only a small
>>  share of the market. Apple was last with color, last with Ethernet and
>>  networking and still prefers graphics and music to business
>>  applications which seems to be the largest potential market.
>
>I don't know if macs were last with ethernet, but I do know that macs had
>ethernet as standard equipment way before typical PCs. (Assuming my
>friends & co-workers 5-10 years ago had typical PCs.)


Hmmmm. Good point. My ca 1997 PM7300 had built-in ethernet whereas my 
ca 1997 Dell Latitude does not although I now have installed a PCMCIA 
card and dongle to get it online via ethernet.

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