[geeks] Article: Sun's not so cheap trick doesn't work

Sheldon T. Hall shel at artell.net
Wed Oct 15 04:31:03 CDT 2008


Quoth wa2egp at att.net ...
> From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
> >
> > I wish Apple would do the same, I bet they could sell a lot 
> > of AA battery
> > packs for their laptops, which is probably why they don't.
> 
> Could always pick up a Tandy Model 100 (ducking...)

Or a Olivetti Quaderno, which was a more-or-less PC AT laptop of the early
nineties.  PC AT capabilities in a 1-kilo laptop that ran on 4 AA batteries.
I had one for a while, ad every time I'd open it up on an airplane flight,
the guy sitting next to me would try to buy it.

-Shel



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