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Hello, all. I had been looking at notebooks for some time, saw "Microsystems Warehouse"'s ad for a TP360C for 2K and sprang for it. Paid $19 for overnite delivery and got it the next day. Installed Warp yesterday to see how it would do. Ran slowly, of course, with virtually constant swapping. Marginally acceptable because I really like Warp. Decided to try a "pure" OS/2 setup with a HPFS filesystem. Did the install, and had a glitch when install left the HPFS driver remmed out. Not hard to fix if one is experienced, but a new user would be baffled. Warp still ran slowly, no evident change from the previous setup. Installed the IAK and that was too much for my 4MB of RAM, went into the worse case of "swapfile hell" I have seen. The IAK _did_ run, mind you, but window switching and such was very, very, very slow. So Warp will have to wait until I get more RAM. On the plus side, install recognized my PCMCIA modem and also the Western Digital video setup. I also thought the appearance on the 640x480 screen was very good, especially compared to Windows. I will definitely re-instll when I get more memory. My TP has 4MB RAM and the 170MB hard disk. More RAM is in the cards, of course, but I use this machine as a "second" computer and I think the HD capacity is OK for the time being. But one day I want to install Linux, and I will probably shop for a bigger HD then also. Overall I think it is a superb machine. The display is gorgeous and the machine is laid out very intelligently. The keyboard is very easy for me to use, although your mileage could vary there due to personal preferences. About the only gripe I can think of is that the little fold out feet that elevate the machine don't lock, and you can fold them accidentally when inserting floppy disks. Performance is adequate to good. The processor (486SX-33) is slow by today's standards, but battery life seems really excellent. I personally don't want a "rocket" CPU if that means battery life is only an hour or two. Anyody know who sells good RAM cheap???? (Oh, yeah, the IBM thingy works very well) Jim Biggerstaff jimb@infi.net Norfolk, Virginia, USA ======================================================================== These profound insights are NOT freeware. If found useful, please send money within 30 days. ========================================================================