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To: JGoren who wrote (2371)10/15/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: Sawtooth  Respond to of 13582
 
<< Box makers have to protect their laptop market; laptops are big part of their businesses, and they are already being connected to the handheld devices. Place the power of the chip in the laptop.>>

Good point. The *laptop* will become something much different than what we think of it as today. Remember the simply wonderful, enabling technology of the first Compaq *portables* of less than fifteen years ago (the size of a medium suitcase and forty+ pounds, running DOS applications on green screens, mouseless, modemless, and networkless at a speed of 8 mhz and storage of 1 mb)?