From: Brian Pearce (bpearce_at_cloud9.net)
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 11:48:05 PDT
> ...The real issue was that it caused the PowerBook sales to plummet! In
> the MP 2100, potential powerbook buyers saw a workhorse that could
> do just about everything that most users would require, at a third of
> the
> cost and a fraction of the weight..."
While I don't know that this was true, I doubt it would be true these
days; portable products have become a very, very big business for
Apple, and I think most users rely on them for more than just basic
functionality.
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