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Due Next Year: Dell's 19-inch Laptop
WheelRunner writes "Engadget is running a story about Dell's new 19-inch laptop. Sadly, it's too late for the only lap that could hold it, Marlon Brando's." Maybe if Apple would put a keyboard-containing lid (and a briefcase-style handle) on the 20" iMac, a market for car-battery backpacks would emerge.
TGIK got rid of his 17" powerbook after a few months. It was too damned big. It was no longer a convieniently portible device. it was a mobile workstation.
I think it's awesome that tech has come to the point of making machines like this. But how long is it before more people that don't need/want/know how to upgrade their machiens have these instead of real desktops at thier desk, in mass numbers? Think how much easier in a corporate environment it would be to move someone from one cubical to another, if all they had was a 'laptop' and personal effects!
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When I bought my first laptop, a GRiDCase III Plus, it was ten and a half pounds, and was a featherweight compared to the ~30lb. luggables then available (Compaq, Otrona, &c.)
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Apple even had a carrying case for the 128K Mac when it first came out, which tradition is carried on in:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/LTA%20Projects/ILU
And there's even one for the Mac Mini:
http://www.tombihn.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Scr
The thing I'm faintly surprised / disappointed at is that no one has mad a combination carrying case and battery pack for a Mac Mini _and_ Wacom Cintiq (LCD integrated w/ a graphics tablet) which would get one a Tablet Mac w/o waiting for Apple to build one.
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The woman's response was "that's why we don't call them laptops, sir". Apparently everything was within spec. Go figure.
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...and because it's an x86 machine it has far better processor performance than the G4 and a far higher resolution screen.
Now, regarding quality my experience with Apple quality is that it sucks. Every Apple product I've owned has failed---the two macs each within a month of purchase. You may prefer the aesthetics of the Powerbook but I seriously doubt the quality is better "across-the-board". Frankly many of the parts are identical between the two and I can promise you that Dell does far more regression testing on their systems than Apple does. I've had nothing but good luck with Dell notebooks and have owned more than 6. After 10 days my Powermac failed and has been in the shop getting fixed now for two weeks. You don't have to put up with that shit on a Dell. Apple quality is a myth.