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(04-04-2018 09:31 PM)Waon Shinyoe Wrote:  And 71B (Saturn) is way slower than 75C (Capricorn)... And the screen is smaller... It just “seems” like a step backwards in technology...

It was slower (for most, but not all, number-crunching than the 75C, but for I/O it was MUCH faster) to keep battery life long; more than twice that of the 75C. But it didn't take long for PPC-ers to figure out how to jack up the clock speed.

The LCD screen was kept small to keep it portable, but I really, really wish they had included a 2-line display.

Both of these changes came partly due to customer 'feedback' (aka complaints) about the 75C introduced a year earlier.

But the introduction of the PC and its explosive growth in the same time period as both these machines, radically changed people's view of what 'computer' means.