Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Notebook Computers Dominate Comdex
From: lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (LaMonte Koop)
Date: 22 Nov 92 13:56:53 -0600
Reply-To: lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
 <1992Nov21.060046.29546@midway.uchicago.edu>,<By42DI.Itp@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: SCS GP/Engineering Cluster

In article <By42DI.Itp@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>In article <1992Nov21.060046.29546@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <By1vnx.7HM@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov20.161639.6403@tc.fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>>>>barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>>>>>   The obvious questions are: when is Commodore going to develop a notebook
>>>>>Amiga???  Will it be when the growth of notebook sales has slowed and some
>>
>>>>As usual MB doesn't get it.
>>>
>>
>>>   Commodore would be in the notebook computer market with a notebook Amiga
>>>if their engineers could develop one.
>>	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         
>>Marc, the quality of your posts is degenerating.  I remember a time when
>>some of what you said made sense.  You posted this information in, at times,
>>the wrong manner.  
>>
>>But this is rediculous.  "if their engineers could develop one" is simply
>>stupid.  Their engineers could ceartinly put a battery pack on a A600.
>
>   That is the stupidest statement I have heard for a LONG time.  Putting a 
>battery pack on an A600 would hardly give you a "notebook Amiga".  It would
>give you a "barely luggable Amiga", as the battery required to power something
>as wasteful of power as a desktop computer would be similar in size and weight
>to a 12V car battery.  It also would not give you a low-power LCD display.
>
>   You do not realize the amount of engineering that would be involved in
>making a true notebook Amiga.  Suffice it to say, designing a notebook Amiga
>would make the design of the A4000 look like child's play.

    Obviously you do not realize what you speaketh of either.

>  It would require
>the complete re-engineering of the Amiga into 3.3V CMOS.  Not just the custom
>chips would have to be redesigned into this technology, but all of the other
>chips as well.  It would also require a higher degree of integration that
>anything Commodore's engineers have done with the Amiga so far.

    See above.

>   Perhaps you just do not realize what a notebook computer is.  Most notebook
>computers weigh less than four pounds, including the LCD display, battery
>pack, and everything.  By comparison, the A600 alone system unit alone probably
>weights far more than four pounds.  Add a battery pack and LCD display and you
>are talking about 15-20 pounds.  The latest notebook computers also have a
>VERY long battery life, thanks to the 3.3V CMOS technology I mentioned.  An
>A600 with a battery pack light enough to be luggable would be lucky to last
>one hour.
>
>   Please do not stick your foot so far into your moth next time.  It must be
>embarassing for you.

    As it must be for you.  You make some interesting points above, but as 
usual Marc, you know very little about what you are talking about.  You tend
to shroud that lack of knowledge with an air of insult and condescention which
you are not entitled to.  Whether what you say is true or not, your word means
very little here these days, due to the basic fact that you have done the
'foot in mouth' trick just a bit too often.

>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------
                 ----------------------------------------
           LaMonte Koop -- SCSU Electrical/Computer Engineering
 Internet: lkoop@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu -OR- f00012@kanga.stcloud.msus.edu
              "You mean you want MORE lights on this thing???"
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------