Re: PC expo impressions

[chan4@husc.harvard.edu (Derek V. Chan)]

>Huge crowd today at the PC expo.  I got a look at the new PowerPC 
>thinkpad's.  The 850 model looks really cool the screen half of it has a 
>rounded top for the video camera and microphone.  I felt underneath it 
>and I was surprised that it wasn't searing hot like other thinkpads 
>(perhaps the powerpc's don't get as hot as pentiums and 486's).
>The model they had there had 800 on it so it looks like there was a last 
>minute model # switch to 850.  The ones they had there were running 
>either NT or AIX but not their Powerpc OS2 which is still in beta testing.
>
>Now I have to dig out all the pamphlets and magazines I picked up.
>Tomorrow I'll sit in at as many presentations as I can an enter all the 
>raffles.  IBM's giving away one 701C per day.  I am amazed at how small 
>those things actually are since I hadn't seen one yet.
>
>I asked one of the reps there about the 28.8 DSP upgrade and he said any 
>day now but that it would be a flash upgrade and would NOT need a 
>hardware upgrade.  I also cleared up some confusion about the "lower" 
>price on the CX model.  What they did is make the 800x600 screen and the 
>mwave chip options so that the base price with a 640x480 screen and no mwave 
>chip is lower.  
>I also found out that memory manufacturers either have now or in the next 
>couple of months will have 64MB IC dram's.  
                            ^^^^

drooool....anyone wanna make an offer on a 32 mb RAM upgrade?



>I also found a company that sells batteries and car power adapters for 
>thinkpad's including the older 700/720 and 350 models and even the l40sx.
>I'll post the name and prices when I dig it out of my pile of papers.
>Other than that no big innovations in PCMCIA, I did see one PCMCIA card 
>with modem/fax and ethernet with both 10base2 and 10baseT.
>
>Apparently there may be more product announcements from IBM tomorrow as 
>well so stay tuned.
>
>Josh Hosseinoff
>hosseino@yu1.yu.edu
>
>
>
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Derek V. Chan
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