Silent Paws

I located a Silent Paws amiga notebook for sale. The owner wants me to make a reasonable offer fot it. They said it was new, but they have been unable to confirm that the lcd screen works. What I want to know, what would a reasonable offer be for this notebook?

sorry, I intended for this to go in the hardware section.  My bad! Wayne, can you move this for me?

200$ ... if he's ignorant he/she might say 'thats great! for this old piece of junk" ...

Seriously has anyone seen one of these actually work?

[spihunter]

I saw one of these in action at a Amiga show in 1998.
It was very cool. It was a bit bulky to be considered a laptop. I would say that it was more of a "luggable" A1200. Does the seller not have a amiga to test it with? From what I remember you slide your Amiga 1200 into the side of the case and it hooks to the keyboard, LCD, and Battery?

[Desolator]

Any pictures of one of those puppies on the net somewhere?

[spihunter]

Here's a picture:
http://amiga.emugaming.com/portamiga.html

[carls]

@Desolator.

Yup.
http://amiga.emugaming.com/paws.jpg

It's HUGE! :-D

[Desolator]

Ooh! I want one!

[Dan]

Very cool but, heavy  Amiga Inc needs to port AOS 4.0 to some onechip computer, i think motorola makes somekind of PPCbased  computers on a chip.
Then it would be possible to make Amiga PDAs, laptops
settopboxes, anything you want

[starbird80]

It's HUGE! :-D

Think that's big?  They planned another model to hold the A4000 desktop motherboard, and allow space for Zorro cards.

I wanted one for my Toaster/Flyer, and talked to one of the Silent Paws guys about it at Amiga St. Louis in '97.  He seemed pretty gung ho, as some company had expressed interest in a batch, so I could have got mine added to the production run.  Unfortunately a few days later I got a message that this company had backed out of the deal, and Silent Paws would need to have an order for a batch of at least ten before they'd do any.  (No, I don't know who they were.)

I talked to the seller, he says that he did install a motherboard to the thing, but he could not get it to work. He also said that he did not spend a great deal of time getting it to work.

I offered him a deal of $200 USD  + a powerbook 1400c for the thing. I will see if he takes the offer. Even if it does not work, the neatness of the thing will be worth it to me.

[AmiNTT]

Wonder Computers had a *stack* of these at one point.  They were quite difficult to get to work - I'd say that 95% of Amiga users wouldn't be able to get it to work - I couldn't.  If memory serves, it took three of us togeather to get one working.

If the seller says that he can not confirm if the LCD works, then it is useless/worthless.  I would say offer him $50 and if you can get it to work, send him an additional amount.

[Themamboman]

I always thought the Suzanne project (same page), based on the A600 was cool.  I was surprised that no one tried to make a laptop from a cd32.  The motherboard should have been small enough and you got an EC020 to boot.  Cutting a slot in the case would allow the SX32 expansion to fit (and possibly an 030 upgrade).

Oh well, with the original Amithlon and WinUAE, it would be easier to just buy a windoze laptop and emulate Amiga.

[carls]

@starbird
There was some other company making "luggable" A4000 machines. It was kind of a mini-tower with a briefcase handle on top of it. It also had a built-in LCD screen at one side of the chassi, and a separate keyboard. IIRC they could house a Video Toaster.

[DaveP]

DONT BOTHER!

They are a fiddle to set up and use, it is an entirely
dissapointing experience - you might as well just get
an LCD panel for your existing A1200 and a small suitcase
to "lug" it around OR spend it on a circa 400Mhz PC running Amiga Forever.

*waste*of*money*