[geeks] I've just seen this

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

mrbill at mrbill.net writes:

>On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:57:17PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>> O wait, the IBMs only were PPCs weren't they, not the real POWER chips.  That 
>> might be why I don't hear about them.  Perhaps IBM should put the POWER chips 
>> in notebooks, just so that we can say the above.

>"Its a laptop!  No!  Its a hot plate!  Its the Short-Order-Cook-Book!"

>Thats why they dont have real POWER-series chips in laptops.

Easily solved. Make a waterproof POWER4 laptop aimed at the SCUBA
crowd. And.... it only works when fully immersed. :-)

("Oh yes, that problem's been fixed. Only the very first generation
units attracted sharks.")

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