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...notebook computers, check out the IBM ThinkPad, the Apple PowerBook, and those manufactured by Compaq...
...finished pecking away at my Powerbook and responded somberly, "No, this is it. This is actually the last game story I'm ever going to write...
...contrast, Apple Computer -- which has surpassed IBM as the leading PC maker for the first time ever -- is having a spectacular year, largely on the success of its laptop PowerBook. Apple and Compaq are reaping the benefits of huge demand sparked by aggressive price cutting. Workstation manufacturers, such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, are also enjoying strong demand for their machines. IBM is still catching up in workstations. Although it developed superb technology years ago, the company sat on it out of fear that it would cannibalize IBM's bread-and-butter mainframe business...
TECHNOLOGY: Read a Good PowerBook Lately...
...PowerBook packs the features of a Macintosh into a machine the size and weight of a dictionary. But driving the new venture is a bit of magic performed by programmers at Voyager, a Santa Monica, Calif., software company, that makes the experience of reading a book on a screen amazingly close to reading it on paper. "It's the first thing I've seen that I could curl up in bed with," says Nora Rawlinson, editor in chief of the trade magazine Publishers Weekly...