a morphic tutorial in morphic
JArchibald at aol.com
JArchibald at aol.com
Wed Jun 13 21:27:40 UTC 2001
=> 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.
Quoting:
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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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