=> 6/13/01 4:48:59 PM EDT, Alan.Kay at squeakland.org =>
<< BTW, Squeak runs really well (including the 3D stuff) on the new 
 iBook from Apple. So, well in fact, that I have been giving all my 
 recent demos on it. (It's not quite as fast as the big Powerbooks, 
 but very impressive nonetheless on this very inexpensive machine.) >>

Alan,

The New York Times had an article recently (May 31, 2001: "4 Laptops 
Lilliputians Might Like" by David Pogue) recommending 4 recent laptops that 
was very complimentary of the new iBook.

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1.  It runs for about four and a half hours, making the iBook the only laptop 
here that can play a whole DVD movie on one charge.) 
2.  On iBooks with CD-RW or combination drives, you find out how Apple thinks 
CD burning should work: you just drag files and folders onto a blank CD's 
desktop icon as though it were any old disk, and a Burn CD command does the 
rest. 
3.  But the iBook's stealth feature is its price. The base model, at $1,300 
(with 64 megabytes of RAM and a CD drive), is $500 less than the 
lowest-priced similarly configured Windows competitor ... ]
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Unfortunately, the Apple computer was presented last, in spite of its claimed 
substantial superiority. The Windows entries were from Fujitsu, NEC and 
WinBook.

Cheers,
Jerry.
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Jerry L. Archibald
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