Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's exactly right Jeff... When you have a hundred different companies competing for your business, it's amazing what can be built. Paper thin, light weight, 14" XGA, CD, DVD, QRS, TUV, WXYZ. And when you have a minuscule share of the market AND no competitive manufacturers, well... you get what you get. Which ain't much! Jim At 11:11 PM 4/9/99 -0600, you wrote: >Spoken as an R8 owner Eric? :-) > >Talk about your "Road-Hugging Weight"! That big G3 powerbook screen >(gorgeous? not exactly the word I would use) >suffers from uneven contrast/apparent brightness--certainly not a >Leica-grade picture there, even by notebook standards. As desktop >machines, they are pokey and expensive. As mobile units, you really gotta be >into this sort of thing to want to haul one around much, else you are a lot >burlier than I am! I use an M6--and a Pilot Pro! > >Steve Jobs said, "Think Different", so I did--I went and looked at the G3's >competition and decided I liked it better. > >Jeff > >-----Original Message----- >From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> >[speaking of the G3 Powerbooks) And those 14.1 TFT screens are >>gorgeous. For someone who wants one machine that does home and on the road, >>they can't beat. >