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In article <12464@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
>  There is [a laptop] in the works right now, and they have actually shipped
>  prototypes around the world, although they are remaining tight-lipped
>  about it. About all I know is it comes with 2 meg standard and it's grey.
> 
> You mean Apple's going to make us throw away *TWO* megs in 256K simms when
> upgrading higher????  I hope they have half a clue and drop 4 meg standard.
> For the money they're going to be charging for that baby, they might as well.
> 
> Yeah, yeah, I know, this is Apple, they'll never do that.

Sorry to correct you, but "this rumored laptop," if it actually did exist,
would have a 68000 processor.  That means that memory would be installed
in pairs of SIMM chips, like the Mac SE.  So 2MB is an optimal configuration:
you will be able to add two more 1MB SIMMs to go to 4MB, probably the limit
for several reasons: the number of SIMM slots, the power consumption, etc.

-Michael

p.s. I don't know a thing about the portable except for what I have read
     in MacWEEK.

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