hardarso@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson) (02/23/91)
Two comments on the contents of the March issue: 1) Don't go looking for a review on the Zeos386 notebook, it didn't make it into the article on hot 386 laptops. 2) Somewhere in the magazine it says: 8086 notebooks are being phased out of production. Reflections on that? Does everyone want all that power? Apparently yes, it seems... -- Kari Hardarson | Twas brillig and the slithy toves 217 Jackson Circle | did gyre and gimble in the wabe... Chapel Hill, NC 27514 | (Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll)
dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (02/24/91)
In article <1799@borg.cs.unc.edu> hardarso@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson) writes: >2) Somewhere in the magazine it says: >8086 notebooks are being phased out of production. Reflections on that? >Does everyone want all that power? Apparently yes, it seems... I don't. I have a Toshiba T1000SE and I find it entirely adequate for what I need, in terms of CPU power. It can even run Windows 2.x quite well. But for a laptop, I don't really find a Windows environment very practical. It is very difficult to use a mouse on a plane, unless you borrow your neighbor's lap. What I would like to see, is T1000SE features (or perhaps with a hard disk, T1000LE), but much lighter and thinner. The T1000SE is still a little too much to carry comfortably everywhere. I don't want to compromise the keyboard anymore, so the height and length will probably have to remain in the 8x11 range. But it could be thinner (>1") and much lighter, perhaps 2 lbs. Instead of the hard disk, the Flash EEROM would be nice. Cheers, Dan Ts'o 212-570-7671 Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu Rockefeller Univ. ...phri!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. tso@rockvax.bitnet NY, NY 10021