On Dec 17, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
On 17/12/04 14:13, "Dyna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Suffice to say, I won't be waiting in line at the Apple Store to buy a new PowerBook or probably anything else Apple.
Unfortunate. That's your choice. You need to know that the same can happen
with any other computer maker. Most of the time, you'll have a fine machine,
as your iMac can testify, but sometimes, you might have problems.
I agree with Laurent. You won't be satisfied with anything that's on the market.
Computers are not motorcycles. Nor are they 20-year old solid state radio trancievers. Those are simple, mature technologies, designed to be used and abused.
Laptops are a lightweight conglomeration of components, electronic and mechanical that are necessarily fragile.
The market is demanding lighter and lighter and more and more capable laptops.
There's an old, old engineering maxim: "Fast, Cheap, Reliable...pick any two."
The corollary for laptops is "Lightweight, Cheap, Rugged...pick any two."
You can ruggedize a laptop, you could probably even ruggedize a powerbook and retain a powerbook's weight and size to a fair degree, but then you're looking at unobtanium components.
You could fairly cheaply ruggedize a Powerbook but it'll end up weighing 10 or more pounds.
Or cheap and reliable? get a tandy 100. They're built like brick <bleep>houses, and the folks who have 'em swear by them. You're not going to run iMovie on one, though...
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