[geeks] New Apple Laptops

[Simeon Johnston]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 11:25 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> I always had an idea of having a laptop in a rubber coated shock proof 
> casing with the motherboard floating loose with spongy material on the 
> inner side of the casing in fluorinert or similar.... and a sealed 
> membrane keyboard... A scuba laptop of sorts... maybe make it yellow 
> like those water resistant walkman radios of the late 80's early 90's.

I've seen something like this from Sony, IIRC.  They were waterproof 
(completely), The HD was encased in a shock absorbing shell thingy and 
the case was mostly rubber for shock absorption also.  It was REALLY 
cool, but about a grand more than yer average laptop for the speeds they 
offered.  This was a while ago also and I don't remember the models, but 
I'm sure they were from Sony.

They were impressive and looked like they could take quite a pounding.

sim