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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (49633)	8/1/2001 7:33:08 PM
From: 5dave22	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Jim, in my industry we're constantly doing presentations on notebooks. They perform well on desktop, but when we get to a conference room, it hardly ever runs smooth. When we shop for new notebooks, it's worth paying an extra ten grand ($1,000 for 10 laptops) and looking more professional than the last guy. In the past, that meant PIII's all the time. K6-2's were crap, so we didn't mess with them. You gotta be able to boot up and pull up programs quickly, which is why I'm excited about the new speeds of portables. Because of this, I think laptops will sell well over the next couple of years - lots of speed upgrades and MUCH beter performance - many corps are still working off 500-600MHz. Dave

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (49633)	8/1/2001 7:37:13 PM
From: stak	Respond to of 275872

Jim, yeah I know what you mean about the upgradeability. It's a pretty futile thing to persue. I didn't know you have to pay extra for warrantying the screen?!? Is that for extended time or right from day one? Ummm trackballs do suck. Gotta plug in the mouse for sure. Maybe we can get out the scissors and trim your fingies a bit to fit the keyboards ;-) The high does get lost if running on batteries on the plane etc.... >Because they aren't really upgradable and become virtually worthless in a couple years. And you have to pay extra to warranty the screen. Besides that you never really get top end with a notebook relative to a desktop. On top of that my fingers are too big and slide pads and trackballs suck. LOL<< Those Apple notebooks do look and work great for the high end graphics stuff. I'd love to have one. Yeah it's tough doing graphics on an LCD screen. Probably go blind after awhile <g>. I think any Tualatin with 256Meg will be still very useful for 4 years with Win XP. It's a shame they become virtually worthless in a couple years for you. So would you rather go with a low end or middle of the road "book" and upgrade every two years or just forget notebooks ? stak

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (49633)	8/2/2001 9:14:40 AM
From: that_crazy_doug	Respond to of 275872

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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (49633)	8/2/2001 9:46:34 AM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

>Only reason I can see for a high end graphics loaded notebook is someone running a Graphics program on the road like Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop and that's tenuous because what graphic artist wants to design on a notebook? < Depends on what you mean by high end. Remember, high end has a tendency to keep coming down. For a true high end notebook, one obvious application is field research. For example, oil exploration requires both high end compute power and good visualization in a portable unit. For what is currently high end, the market is primarily moving this into the mainstream. Once the power of today's $3600 notebooks filters down to the under $1800 price point, many consumers will be purchasing these notebooks as desktop replacements, rather than spending $1000 for a low end notebook plus another $800 for a desktop. The mobile nForce plus Thoroughbred/Barton should be ideal to address the needs of this market.