Hi,

On the winXP side, I don't think PIV's are "portable". Pentium-M and PIII 
machines have loger battery life. And the performance is closer to that of 
G4 powerbooks, because there are no G5 powerbooks.

I'm quite happy with my PIII IBM T23. 1Gb ram, 1.1GHz. Nice screen. 
Lightweight. More than 4 hours of battery life. WinXP.

And I left OS/2 behind a year ago... WinXP uses a lot more memory, but it's 
the first Win I used that is more stable than OS/2... And quite better for 
real time music.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
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From: "tim Rowledge" <tim at rowledge.org>
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Subject: Re: OFF Topics :: PC-laptop or Powerbook

> I've had a high end winXP laptop - lovely hardware, superb screen,  nice 
> keyboard - and hated it. battery life of 45 minutes is not my  idea of 
> fun. winXP is, if anything, worse than the windows 3.0 I had  to debug 
> VisualWorks 1.0 on in 1991.
>
> I've had an older G3 powerbook - the funky black ones -and it was ok. 
> decent battery life, good all round hardware quality but OS 9.x stunk.
>
> I now have a pBook G4 15" and it's rather nice. Good performance, 
> tolerable UI (not good, but tolerable), decent battery life and OSX  tiger 
> is quite good. Spotlight in particular seems to be the  beginning of a 
> real change for the better in the UI experience. Right  now I'm using it 
> attached to a big screen/external kdb etc as my main  machine. Yes, you 
> heard it here first, tim is no longer living on a  RISC OS machine.
>
> I submit that they are well worth the apparent price premium, though  I 
> don't think it is much of a premium over any decent quality winXP  laptop. 
> If you compare with the el-cheapo's then ... well never mind.
>
>
> tim
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