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In article <shnst+-0307962106390001@lil-spiffy.chem.pitt.edu>,
shnst+@pitt.edu (Captain Entropy) wrote:

>In article <Pine.PTX.3.91.960703185729.13344C-100000@tattoo.ed.ac.uk>,
>Simon Stuart <sparky@tattoo.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, John Kestner wrote:
>> 
>> > > Personaly, I think you should consider getting a 5300 with a couler
>> > > monitor. It only costs a bit more and having couler is a big improvment
>> > > on graysyle.
>> > 
>> > Not really, since you can get a 5300 grayscale for $1099 or so, and the
>> > cheapest color 5300 (the cs) costs about $900 more. That's significant
>> > savings.
>> 
>> Yup. I certainly don't need colour for what I want to do and I'm not 
>> paying 400 pounds more just to get it.
>
>I heartily agree.  My top choice, dollar for dollar and pound for pound,
>among every 'generation' of PowerBooks has been an active
>matrix/gray-scale model, though I'd settle for passive matrix in a Duo. 
>Color portable screens may be a favorite ego-boosting toy for corporate
>geeks who think their desktop presentations make the world go 'round, but
>it's just not necessary, or even that useful, for most purposes, and I'm
>certainly not going to pay $hundreds for it.  Too bad Apple gives short
>shrift to the gray-scale PB's, even dropping the 5300 gray-scale.

Of course, you could look at it as a cost/convenience saver to get color...
I have had a 540c for 18 months now and plan to make due for another couple
of years (Okay, so I got the PPC upgrade) Anyway, I have traveled something
like 40,000 miles with it doing various graphical work and never even
wanted to attach an external monitor.

If I had got the grayscale, I would have bought an external monitor by now
and been bummed by the slow external video... bummed that it was difficult
and expensive to move... bummed that it wouldn't fit on my desk, etc.

Don't get bummed!  :-)

--
Jeffrey A. Hawkins
EFL Instructor, Trinity Language School

http://www.dacom.co.kr/~jhawkins
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