Re: So was the keynote a massive anticlimax?



Bonge Boo! <bingbong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 13/1/06 11:35, in article
> 1h93o2u.dn6oeu1apduziN%black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jon B"
> <black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> What's wrong with cost cutting?
> >> You can always buy USB modem..
> >
> > Because it seems most people want the modem for those emergency
> > situations, built it means it will be in the PB, not sat at home as they
> > haven't used it in X months, or still in the shop as they never forked
> > out for it.
>
> Agreed. Although I expect the reason for omission was more physical than
> financial. Where to put it? Pretty crowded guts already...

How about in the room freed up by the FW800, svideo...

The new modem boards in the very latest G4 iBooks are about half the
size of the one in the G3 iBooks and early G4s iBooks, don't think room
for a port was a problem on the PB, sure there is somewhere they could
find to stick the card..
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Jon B
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