gh0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gordon Hester) (03/22/90)
I just saw an ad for a laptop made by "outbound" in Macweek (pp. 14-15). It looks nice (small, though not clear how thick, backlit LCD, 9 pounds), but the way it works is a bit unusual. It seems you take the ROM's out of a mac plus or SE and put them in this thing. When it is conected to your mac, your macs performance is supposedly enhanced. When it's not, it runs as a standalone laptop that can run your mac applications. Now this all sounds very nice to me. (MInd you, I just have the ad to go on.) I need a laptop for business travel, and I use macs at home and in my office. But I want to be able to use my mac at home when I don't have the laptop around, too, and I want to be able to use files on the laptop both at home and at my office (where I'll have a mac 2 soon). I realize this is a brand new product (or at least I think it is), and perhaps nobody else knows any details about it, either. But 2 questions occur to me immediately. 1- can I just buy the roms for the laptop and still use my mac plus at home independently _and_ with the laptop, and 2- can I use it with a mac 2 at all? I'm sending for some info on this product; maybe I'll be answering my own questions soon. gordon hester