Consumer Portable

Tim Byars (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:53:52 -0700


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>Consumer portable update
>
> Recent news made available to Rumors regarding Apple's forthcoming Consumer
> Portable (code name "P1") has fit well into the overall Mac-platform picture.
> Among the highlights:
>
> As with the iMac, the ergonomics are designed from children up -- instead
> of Professional machines, which are often designed from adults down.
> The pointing device, screen placement, keyboard design, and case are all
> targeted at being kid-compatible without making them incompatible with
> adults.
> Processing will most likely be handled through a 300Mhz G3 PowerPC
> processor with a 512k backside cache -- however, earlier rumors of a
> cacheless model continue to linger.
> The portable will ship with 32MB of RAM, a 4GB 2.5" hard disk, and a
> 11"-ish DSTN LCD screen, which sources report is visually similar to the
> screen used in the PowerBook 2400 subnotebook.
> Weight should also be similar to that of the 2400...a little over four pounds
> in current versions.
> Of course, all versions should include built-in USB. IrDA and Firewire are
> unknowns with regards to whether they will be included with shipping
> versions of the product, but provided rumors of Apple's decision to
> waylay Infrared for the immediate future are inaccurate (and assumption
> that we are unfortunately not ready to make), IrDA should be a shoo-in for
> the portable.

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Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're full up here. ...Nicholson

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>Consumer portable update

>

> Recent news made available to Rumors regarding Apple's forthcoming Consumer

> Portable (code name "P1") has fit well into the overall Mac-platform picture.

> Among the highlights:

>

> As with the iMac, the ergonomics are designed from children up -- instead

> of Professional machines, which are often designed from adults down.

> The pointing device, screen placement, keyboard design, and case are all

> targeted at being kid-compatible without making them incompatible with

> adults.

> Processing will most likely be handled through a 300Mhz G3 PowerPC

> processor with a 512k backside cache -- however, earlier rumors of a

> cacheless model continue to linger.

> The portable will ship with 32MB of RAM, a 4GB 2.5" hard disk, and a

> 11"-ish DSTN LCD screen, which sources report is visually similar to the

> screen used in the PowerBook 2400 subnotebook.

> Weight should also be similar to that of the 2400...a little over four pounds

> in current versions.

> Of course, all versions should include built-in USB. IrDA and Firewire are

> unknowns with regards to whether they will be included with shipping

> versions of the product, but provided rumors of Apple's decision to

> waylay Infrared for the immediate future are inaccurate (and assumption

> that we are unfortunately not ready to make), IrDA should be a shoo-in for

> the portable.

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Go sell crazy somewhere else,

we're full up here. ...Nicholson

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