It hit me all of a sudden. There I was, walking down the cafeteria in
my school, when I saw it. A laptop. I was mesmerized. All my thoughts
turned to it. It was like the equivelant of a woman's biological clock
telling her to have a baby. All of a sudden I couldn't live without a
laptop.
I thought about this urge for a while. I honestly couldn't think of
many things I'd use a laptop for. The only ones that immediately came to
mind were for typing notes in class, using the Internet while I was not
occupied with other classwork, and writing stories as I was in the car.
In reality none of these reasons was good enough to buy a laptop instead
of a new A1200 with a 68030 accelerator when they finally come out. And
yet it didn't seem to matter.
"Oh, what can I do!" I thought. I wanted a laptop, but I didn't at
all want to buy a hideous PC, and I didn't like the idea of a Mac too
much either. I had heard of the hack to put your Amiga into a laptop, but
I didn't trust hacks too much, and besides, I didn't have a spare Amiga to
use.
For days I pondered my problem, until I came upon the Amiga World Wide
Web Page. I read the three articles by ex-C= employees, and read their
talk of this technology and that technology, and I realized like never
before how badly C= had screwed the Amiga. Not just a lot. No, Commodore
did about as much to kill the Amiga as humanly possible. If you ever read
these articles you'll be sick to your stomach, and vow to kill Medhi Ali
and Irving Gould. And yet, these articles gave me new hope. How, you
say? How could such depressing articles give me hope? They did, because
I saw how incredible the Amiga technology still is. I saw that as soon as
the buyout is over we can have machines that we'd never even DREAMED of
before. I saw machines that would blow every PC user's mind. But more
than that, I saw technology that could easily make a laptop Amiga, which
could run all my favorite word pros, games, comm programs, and much, much
more.
And I saw that the new company that will own the Amiga can't be as bad
as C=. I saw that there was no way that they could make such hideous
decisions. I knew that they'd eventually make a laptop Amiga.
And I saw myself calling my dealer to pre-order one as soon as they
were announced...
Joshua Galun
Editor-in-Chief
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