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| How is ignorance treating you these days? 1:14 AM EST Wed Jan 24, 2001 | |
| William Keyser Two things. First of all, it does fit in a coach seat. Infact, with the slot loading cd/dvd drive in the front, you can change media without having to pickup the laptop while in that coach seat. Your criticisms beg the question, how often do you fly with a PB? The bottom line is that users have options. Do you really expect that in this super-sexy form factor to have every item on everyone's wish list? And if it doesn't, how does this make it another Cube? This form factor has just about everything most laptop users will ever need. If you need more stuff, than you carry more stuff. How is that different than yesterday's best case scenario of "Great, there is a portable solution at all? And BTW, if you have more than one media dock item with the PB G3s you still have to carry them and they don't save you any space or weight. Secondly, you obviously don't know how much this machine is going to change the possibilities for everything from client presentations with extremely multimedia rich presentations to revolutionizing news reporting (CNN is going that way right now, so that is NOT idle theory or speculation. They are rolling out PBs and DV Camcorders to more and more reporters everyday. ) Also, for Multimedia Engineers like me, there is finally a machine that I can take with me and do my work anywhere in the world. That couldn't be said before Jan 9th. While the book has not been closed on what multimedia will evolve into, I guarantee that it will require very powerful machines to author and encode. A world class workhorse of a laptop mobilizes hundreds of thousands of people that had very limited options before. Conclusion: This machine is a homerun and the only thing that can kill it is Apple not delivering it. |
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