atw: Re: Buying a new laptop
- From: "Michael Granat" <mgranat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:56:50 +1000
Yes, I considered that Naomi (Kramer)
But the power supply (plus fan) in most of today's desktop
PCs is around the size of an Amiga 500 power block from
1987 and considerably lighter.
As for the CPU, you could use one from a laptop and add a
decent heat sink at the back plus some more ventilation.
I just remember how people used to carry their slimline
Amigas inside a ruck sack or under their arms to swap
meets and user group meetings, taking seconds to set up.
So portable, robust and capable.
I even saw an Amiga 1200 (Motorola 68020 CPU)
running Windows 95, Mac OS, a UNIX GUI and
the Amiga GUI in separate but concurrent
sessions while the owner flipped between them.
Plus everything (except Amiga) ran faster than
on their native machines.
Games platform my eye!
But perhaps not enough of a status symbol for
today's "laptops and lattes" market? =20
Cheers,
Michael
Michael E. Granat
Technical Communicator
Without Prejudice. E&OE. Private & Confidential.
-----Original Message-----
From: Naomi Kramer [mailto:nkr@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 May 2004 15:42
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Buying a new laptop
I suspect the power supply needs got too high, what with all the cards =3D=
and
gadgets! Consider the need for a decent-sized power supply, and =3D
generally a
fan for the power supply and another one for the CPU... and it's much =3D=
more
difficult to design a slim, compact case. Not impossible, obviously - =3D=
but
probably more pricey and difficult than the demand warrants. It would =3D=
be an
extra step between standard cases and laptops.
- Naomi
-----Original Message-----
Now why nobody (that I know of) builds a PC these days
as portable as an Amiga 500, 600 or 1200 (or an Atari ST)
of the late 1980s and 1990s, with a slim CPU case that has
an integrated keyboard is beyond me.
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