Ron wrote:
I just wish PowerComputing had made laptops.
If they had done so when the clones first appeared (1995), the
competition from Apple would have been the disastrous 5300 series
(US$2200 -$6500), which - to be fair - was hamstrung by the newly
introduced Sony lithium batteries.
I still have a Power 100 - the nubus based PowerMac 8100 knockoff -
now with a G3 upgrade in the processor direct slot. That series main
drawback is the nubus architecture.
Radius had marketed a must-have video card - the omnipotent sounding
'Radius Thunder GX 1600' complete with 4 DSP's (digital signal
procesors) daughtercard for Photoshop work, which was about the
fastest nubus card ever made for Macs.
At US$4995, the Radius Thunder meant a choice between having another
child or boosting video speed.
What to do, what to do...
Shortly afterwards, and after the 5300 laptops were recalled to fit
older NiCad batteries, thus solving the embarrassment of exploding
laptops - PowerComputing brought out the very impressive PowerCurve.
With the newer PCI architecture, and a removeable 601 CPU ala the Mac
7500, the PowerCurve, based on the 7200 'Catalyst' architecture,
showed Apple's 7200 series to be the road-apple it truly was. The
PowerCurve eventually evolved into the pocket-battleship
PowerCenterPro 240, whereas Apple kept the 7200 hobbled throughout
it's tortured lifetime to placate 7500/8500 owners.
Given that PowerComputing had reworked the 7200 so well, and that
the Apple 5300 laptop was so troublesome, the dual possibilities were
that PowerComputing might have produced a better and instantly
popular laptop for less dollars than Apple - or equally might equally
have produced a lemon like the 5300.
Building laptops then, as now, is another order of difficulty over
using off-the-shelf giblets inside a huge tower or desktop carcass.
It is good to see some action here on the PowerComputing list. I would
post more but I don't have any problems with mine and I am pretty hard
on it. Damn thing just keeps going.......
While I agree that incoming from the PowerComputing list is always
welcome, I've gotta say that it's useless for personal ads. I haven't
had a single hit in response to my request for elderly female
companion(s), and must therefore conclude that PowerComputing
computers appeal to men only.
Cheers Michael
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