ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) (10/06/89)
at a A/V trade show in toronto this afternoon, i actually got to see and
touch the dreaded apple laptop. nice machine. trackball for a mouse, and
the most amazingly crisp laptop screen i've ever seen. incredibly fast
response, and like i said, superbly crisp. seems like they've done a nice
job here. the main problem, as far as i'm concerned is the lack of a standard
number pad. like, does apple hate people who type numbers, or what? and
apple still doesn't seem to have a normal set of cursor keys, arranged like
the atari or an PC/AT. like, do people have to use that bloody mouse for
everything. (i had to find something to bitch about apple, right???) :-)
anyways, like i said, its out in the marketplace. not just talk, but the real
thing. who cares if it costs $8000 in canada. people and corporations are
gonna snap it up since its AVAILABLE. that's right atari, you can say it too.
AVAILABLE. AVAILABLE. not rumours or styrofoam mockups. AVAILABLE. its real.
you can go to an apple dealer and actually touch it! i saw what seemed to
be a completed stacy back at WOA in detroit, and that was way back in june i
believe. its now october. where is it?? do we loyal atarians have to always
dream of the machines that were promised years ago?? oh well, it looks like
apple will win again at a game that just a few months ago could have been
wrapped, signed sealed and delivered (or whatever the saying says) by
Atari. now who's gonna get excited over Stacy when you put it next to the
portable mac??? at least a couple of months ago, there was nothing you could
have placed Stacy beside!!! oh well. enough griping about atari's and
apples. i just can't seem to get as worked up over these damn computers
as i used to back in the good old days. :-)
by the way, at this AV show, there were Amiga's by the sh*tload being
displayed for character generation for the video market. seems like the
amiga, with its genlock capabilities, is an excellent low cost character
generator for low end video productions, such as small cable companies, etc.
now, with the STE, the amiga killer :-), coming out, is it gonna have the
capability to genlock the video output with an external sync source, so the
Atari can be used as a low cost video workstation. i can't see that the
amiga is SO far advanced that only the amiga suffices for the video market.
atari should do something about getting into the video market. there's a lot
of money to be made out there in that ballpark. (hint hint hint hint)
go jays go
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