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>From: Gregory Alan Bolcer <gbolcer@elysees.ics.uci.edu>
>To: FoRK@xent.ics.uci.edu
>Subject: More on Lombard
>Date: Wed, Apr 28, 1999, 12:01 PM
>
>Finally, an Apple product I can believe in.
>I'd probably run linux on it though (Sorry!)
>because try as I might, I just can't get used to
>PC Windowing systems that raise windows,
>warp cursors, or lock actions when you don't
>want them to.
>
>Greg
>
>http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/26/apple.idg/index.html
>
>Apple notebooks get skinny
>
> April 26, 1999
> Web posted at: 11:53 a.m. EDT (1553 GMT)
>
> by Jeff Walsh
> From...
>
>
>
> (IDG) -- Apple Computer showed
> dealers its next-generation
> PowerBook computer line behind
> closed doors at the National
> Association of Broadcasters
> Conference in Las Vegas last week,
> according to sources close to the
> company.
>
> The forthcoming unit, code-named
> Lombard, is reportedly at least as thin as Sony's 0.9-inch
> Vaio portable, and will feature processor speeds starting at
> 400 MHz with the next-generation PowerPC G4 processor.
>
> The three-and-one-half pound portable system also features a detachable LCD
> that can be replaced with goggles for so-called heads-up display.
>
> No launch date was given for the Lombard family, although
> this unit is in Apple's professional line, not the forthcoming
> consumer portable, code-named P1.
>
> Apple officials declined to comment on unannounced products.
>
> Jeff Walsh (jeff_walsh@infoworld.com) is
> an InfoWorld senior writer.
>
>
>
>