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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.

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.delta. S