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Don wrote:
> 
> Hello...the necessity of my impending fatherhood for the first time
> compels me to find a more portable mac..and of course, right now I have
> not much to spare to purchase...I have an old but somewhat usable MacIIsi
> with eight megs of ram right now...just needto be able to use my PIMS, and
> do email and a bit of netting around...word processing, etc...what would
> be a comparable laptop unit? guess its an 030...faster would be nicer, but
> whatever...anyway, I may literaly only have one or two hundred dollars to
> spare for it...any suggestions? Please email your reply to me, I may not
> be able to check the newsgroups regularly...thanks!

Any PowerBook numbered between 145 and 165 should be roughly equivalent
to the IIsi; they all have 25-33MHz 030's, though their passive-matrix
displays will make them feel sluggish at times compared to the IIsi.  A
powerbook 170 or 180 (with their active-matrix displays) would feel
about the same as the IIsi.  There may be better deals on higher models,
but then you're starting to get into the $300+ range.  For an
approximate idea of what these systems cost, try

http://www.uce.com/cgi-bin/UCE/uce_index.exe?Action=5

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Matthew Pritzker                Graduate Research Assistant
mpritzke@iucf.indiana.edu       IU Physics Dept.