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Subject:	Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:48:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes: > Something to keep a look out for, if you're into that sort of thing. But > maybe the price difference between the 500 Mhz and 400 MHz PowerBooks would > buy a whole separate DVD player? :) Which, if you're a road warrior, you would leave home. People ask me why I drag out my laptop to listen to MP3s on the plane, when a CD player (or an MP3 player or minidisk player, Sony has one that is the size of a minidisk plus a very small percentage) is smaller. Answer: because I *have* to carry the laptop anyway. So ya, I can see paying more than what a DVD player costs to get DVD func in the same package. ++Lar

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		Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
(...) Do you bring your forearm mounted mini-crossbow, Lar? ;^D ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
(...) Yeah, the guy across the aisle from on last week's flight from New York was watching "Midnight Cowboy" on his Vaio. Pretty Cool, if you're really jonesing for a personal inflight movie. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Titanium PowerBook (was: Re: What if Steve Jobs ran The LEGO Company?)
(...) I heard somewhere (I think it was a discussion group on a Mac fansite) that the 400 MHz units didn't play DVD's as smoothly as the 500 MHz units. I can't remember if that was on battery power or plugged in. My Vaio C1VN (powered by a 600 MHz (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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