gow@sakari.mrceg (Ed Gow) (09/21/90)
Can anyone give me information about the STacy features and price plus some user comments ?? I wish I could ask you to mail it, but mail doesn't get through. Please post. I know it takes up bandwidth, but it provides something to read other than "wouldn't it be nice" flames. Your input will be greatly appreciated. -Ed -- ------ Ed Gow ------ uwm!mrsvr!gemed!sakari!gow ----------- My opinions are NOT those of GE. MGB - The most fun you can have in a car without a back seat
saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (09/21/90)
In article <GOW.90Sep20165414@sakari.mrceg> gow@sakari.mrceg (Ed Gow) writes: >Can anyone give me information about the STacy features and price plus I JUST got a Stacy. If it didn't win some design awards it should have. It is the best looking and solidest feeling laptop I've come across. The one I have is 1M of RAM and a 20M hard disk (furnished formatted and partitioned 4-6-10). The ports are all covered, but most of the frequently used ones are under the back swing-down cover rather than slide-offs (this is good). The screen is magnificent blue and white; by FAR the best LCD screen I've seen, and readable from a huge range of angles. The trackball is very good for moving the mouse, but the button response is very different from on the ST (I'm tempted to say it's bad, but in a week maybe I'll get used to it). The main keyboard is very good; the numeric pad is small, but there and usable. I prefer the way the function, arrow, etc. keys are on the Stacy to the way they are on the ST. The disk is apparently quick. Something makes enough noise to be annoying in a quiet room. Autoboot on initial power-up is about a 50% proposition; reset fixes that. Keyboard warm and 'cold' boot are supported (I have some indication that some status is preserved across a keyboard cold boot), as well as the usual reset button warm boot. There are EXACTLY the same ports as on a regular ST, including mouse, joystick and monitor. A couple criticisms: the power connector socket should be accessible on a completely closed case, rather than being behind the back swing-down. Some of the slide-off panels are too hard to open (that's a tough one: on many machines they fall off too easily). Even though the machine simply doesn't run on batteries, I wish there had been some provision for saving its state across a loss of power, at least for a few minutes. I like it. If you separated the screen from the system box, put the screen on a pantograph arm (and made it a LITTLE brighter), and put the system box in a drawer, you'd have a KILLER executive machine. After all this, I just don't know about prices. I'd guess around $2000, maybe a little less. Steve J.
opperman@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Roger Opperman) (09/22/90)
In other words -- can I put my Spectre on it and have a good, cheap Mac portable???
dejesus@pegasus.cs.tulane.edu (Francisco Xavier Dejesus) (09/23/90)
In article <1990Sep21.223657.19675@evax.arl.utexas.edu> opperman@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Roger Opperman) writes: >In other words -- can I put my Spectre on it and have a good, cheap >Mac portable??? YES!!! Good enough to make Apple/Mac users nervous, since it even does something the Apple Portable can't do: run MIDI software (ST's SW, for Mac MIDI SW Dave Small created another board that allows it). Dave Small (creator of Spectre) is giving a lot of support to the Stacy, he's designed (though I'm not sure if marketed yet) an INTERNAL Spectre GCR for it, and some other nifty goodies... 'nuff said. - Francisco X DeJesus dejesus@comus.cs.tulane.edu ak662@cleveland.freenet.edu
mjv@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale) (09/25/90)
In article <1990Sep21.223657.19675@evax.arl.utexas.edu> opperman@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Roger Opperman) writes: > In other words -- can I put my Spectre on it and have a good, cheap > Mac portable??? Yes -- In fact that's how most people saw their first Stacy because Dave Small had an early one and was showing the Spectre+Stacy combo. Marshall --mjv@brownvm.brown.edu