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To: J R KARY who wrote (7862)	1/20/1998 12:00:00 PM
From: Yiota	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

J R KARY, Thanks very much for the information, No, I did not receive a proxy if it's due Feb 3rd/98, Then it's late! regards, Giota

To: J R KARY who wrote (7862)	1/20/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 213173

I'm still baffled by what I'm hearing about NCs. Everytime I hear about the rumored NC hardware spec. I can't stop myself from laughing. The initial price and specs were pretty incredible to begin with but it seems to get better everyday. Now it seems that in almost every respect these little beasts can kicks my G3/266 MT's butt. By April they should be able to incorporate cold fusion technology into the final product..hehe. Thus until I can get my hands on one of these machines I remain skeptically optimistic about all the features the NC is suppose to have. Until we know exactly what we have, its hard to speculate on the targeted market, market size, profit margin...etc. Rumored Specs (according to MacNN and macosrumors) macnn.com 275-300 MHz PowerPC 750 (implies 512K L2 cache) DRAM/SDRAM (??MB) 17" monitor (the $10,000 LCD screen shown in concept shots??) Built-in Ethernet (almost certain) TV/DTV-Hookup Infared mouse and keyboard (doubt it) Fire-wire (doubt it) 2X DVD (doubt it) Speech to text/Voice Control (doubt it) real-time 3D capability (what?) $700-$900 Okay so the NC doesn't have PCI and other expansions capabilities but if just half of these rumored features were true, it would be an incredible machine indeed. The only thing missing from this picture seems to a freaking HD?! Does that make any sense to anyone? Considering that harddrives are dirt cheap these days...it's hardly the place to skimp on. Local storage cost very little but makes everything 100 times easier...but apparently it'll be optional along with removable storage like Zip etc. It all sounds very strange to me. Eric