hardarso@handel.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson) (02/19/91)
Well, the notebook arrived on friday at noon and I spent the weekend transferring all my programs and files from the desktop to it over the Brooklyn Bridge. The poor desktop (AT) was obviously trying hard to keep up with the disk and CPU of the Notebook: After 45 seconds of arduous labor on the desktop's disk, the Notebook did a 12 second burst of writing and the ball was again on the side of the desktop. The Zeos is an extremely attractive machine. Black is very sexy for a computer! The screen is the equal or better than the paperwhite monitor of the desktop. Keyboard is silent while giving good tactile feedback. Only thing I don't like is: The power supply is big: ca. 6"x4"x4" and the low-voltage cord going from it into the computer is very short, so you have to keep the power supply on the desk. Kind of destroys the image when you're working with it attached. At first I thought I'd lament the absence of the Auto-Resume feature of the Toshibas, where you can turn off the computer in the middle of an application. It turns out not to be too bad, since the Zeos takes less than 5 secs. to boot up. All my old programs are behaving well, since the Zeos will emulate VGA,EGA,CGA and Hercules. Only problem so far: I run WP 5.1 and need the underline and bold attributes. So I type: mode mono and enter Word perfect. Word perfect thinks I have monochrome VGA. However, the underlines/bolds do not appear on the screen as I type them until I've previewed the document for the first time. Apparently, when WP asks the Zeos for a graphics display it snaps into some mode which gets restored to a different (better) text mode upon return to the editing of the document. Any suggestions? Kari -- 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)