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To: chic_hearne who wrote (111237)	5/16/2000 10:47:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575567

chic, That kind of setup is getting more common. the use of USB allows the port replicators/docking stations to be far cheaper. One thing I would like is to have a hard drive in the docking station to act as a mirror in case of loss or destruction. Some corpnets do this now, but many do not and laptops are the most commonly stolen/lost/broken item of office equipment. If they get cheaper they will become a huge market segment. right now they are a small, but valuable niche. TI had the idea a few years ago....whatever happenedn to their low cost laptops. used Cyrix chips as I recall. they were quite good, but i think they lost the horsepower/marketing race. Bill