Word: macintosh
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...Macintosh may presage a revolution in personal computing. But like all major innovations, it also entails a high risk for failure. Apple suffered big losses from its first revolutionary model, the $10,000 Lisa. In this, the second round, it has bounced back with a machine only a fourth the cost of Lisa and with almost as much versatility...
Most obvious, the Macintosh has a unusually small screen size. A nine-inch diagonal, it presents a five-by-seven viewing image...
Despite the small image, the Macintosh delivers remarkable definition and clarity on the screen, which clearly puts the Macintosh a step ahead of its competitors...
...color is a bogus complaint. Most color displays now available are so terrible you can't even do word processing on it," Markoff says. "If I had a choice between the high resolution of the Macintosh and poor color, I'd take the black and white...
...really striking thing about the Macintosh," Markoff says, "is that you can use it to drive a typesetter directly. No other computer can do that...