[P1] 17" Laptops P.S.

[Fred Stevens K2FRD]

At 11:09 -0500 04/11/03, Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:
>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.

As a Post Script, LowEndMac states that the earliest PowerMac, the 
6100 introduced in 1994 had a built-in ethernet port.

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73 de Fred Stevens K2FRD
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