On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, John Kestner wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sez:
>
> > Anybody heard anything about Mercury?
>
> Yeah, but it's supposed to be a full-size replacement (5.5+ lbs., 15"
> screen, etc.) - I doubt a new subnotebook (which I lust after) would see
> enough demand for Apple to justify it (see how the Cube has floundered). The
> likes of Sony can pull it off because they've got a much larger market to
> deal into.
Here's my question about the cube: Why didn't they put PCMCIA slots into
this thing? That is the one thing that would keep me from buying it. No
expansion. zero. none, nada. Even the freakin' Mac SE has an expansion
slot. I don't need PCI slots, but I might want to add something down the
road to this machine. I don't know what yet, but that's the whole
point! Come to think of it, the iBook doesn't have PCMCIA, either. Heck,
even the crappy presario notebooks from Compaq have PC card slots.
RE: Apple Subnotebook, I think that they will put it off to avoid having
too many irons in the fire.
Tom
Who thinks that a much cheaper G3 cube with PC card slots would have sold
much better than the current one.
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