Re: Power Notebook Computer Intel Pentium 200 Mhz MMX + 13.3 -inch Active TFT from $2,999!!!

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From: Bryan E Holland-Minkley
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 00:00

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Excerpts from netnews.alt.games.marathon: 3-Jun-97 Re: Power Notebook
Computer.. by rj...@rjfm2.demon.co.uk 
> 
> >FWIW, you're wrong. The "most powerful laptop in the market" [sic] is the
> >Apple Macintosh Powerbook 3400 series, which comes in 180, 200, and 240
> >MHz models. That's right, 240 MHz. And that's a RISC chip, not over-hyped,
> >under-powered MMX "technology" (good for dancing commercial actors, but
> >for little else). And these PowerBooks have been out for some time now,
> >too. To confirm this, please visit any retailer where finer computers are
> >sold.
> 
> Yawn, yawn, yawn!...can you run Diablo or  Tomb Raider on your Mac...I
> don;t think so...

    Actually, from what I've read, the 3400/240 is fast enough that it
can run PC programs, under emulation, faster than the fastest PC laptop.
 So yes, I can run Diablo or Tomb Raider on my Mac (not that I actually
have a 3400/240, mind you).  Can you run Marathon Infinity on your PC? 
I don't think so.

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From: Bryan E Holland-Minkley <be...@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Power Notebook Computer Intel Pentium 200 Mhz MMX + 13.3 -inch Active TFT from $2,999!!!
Date: 1997/06/04
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