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Comment by rbanffy

14 days ago

I imagine the power consumption of the compute part would be dwarfed by the display in any case.

I was imagining you'd still plug it into an external display. I guess you could fairly argue that defeats the purpose of a battery, though...

Although, it might be cool with e-ink, low refresh rate notwithstanding.

  • E-ink can have better refresh rate than the LCD of a Mac Portable. And would also be readable.

    Would be interesting to see how the ROM deals with changes in display geometry (the Portable wasn’t 512x284) - how hard would it be to make a 1024x768 portrait Mac or some other versions that never existed.