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From: logic@wet.UUCP (Henry Kwan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Portable Mac vs STACY
Message-ID: <583@wet.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 89 02:14:05 GMT
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Reply-To: logic@wet.UUCP (Henry Kwan)
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In article <22440@cup.portal.com> Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) writes:
>I'll tell you the real nifty part - the Mac 'portable' weighs in at a
>hefty 16 pounds!  Its also phically a lot larger than the STacy. And
>to really make life interesting, a picture of the STacy and mention of
>GCR is made in the latest issue of MacUser magazine!  Nice free ad or
>what?  Now all they need is to pump those babies out to a waiting Mac
>world.
>
>Peter Szymonik
>Xorg@cup.portal.com

From every review that I've read, the STacy weights in at 15 lbs.  Not much
of a difference, I would say.

Also, the Macintosh Portable runs at 16 Mhz and the active-matrix screen is
*nice*.  Super fast with no blurring at all and an 180 degree viewing angle.

A single charge will keep the machine running from 6-12 hours and has an
inactive mode in which the processor is kicked down to 1 Mhz to keep battery
drain to a minimum.

Of course, the thing lists for ~$6500.  Still, I'd bet everything that Apple
will not be able to keep up with demand for the first few months.

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