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Thanks for the great report!
At 10:30 PM 8/26/96 -0700, Randy wrote:
> The screen, as far as I can see (I haven't run any software that
>exposes these things extensively) has 1 pixel that is screwed-up, right at
>the very top center of the screen. Its stuck in the "on" position,
>eminating bright white, which IMO is worse than having a dead pixel because
>it sticks out like a sore thumb.
I think it used to be that most laptop companies considered up to 6 dead
pixels "acceptable", is that still the case with IBM? Are you just going to
live with it? I wouldn't be able to :)
> AN INTERRUPTION: Also, sorry to interrupt here, but is there a
>specific, dedicated mailing list for the IBM 560's or the 701's? As far as
>I know, this is the only "real" ThinkPad list. Sorry to Digress...
My understanding is that this list now encompasses all thinkpads, moderator?
>...but the lack of a
>BIOS-level battery guage was a SEVERE disappointment. Basically I have to
>load up software to keep tabs on the battery.
Don't you have a battery gauge on the win95 taskbar?
> It seems like the keyboard is too far in and the combination of the
>Trackpoint and the buttons for the trackpoint are just too stiff for my
>tastes. Again, this is just personal.
I wondered the same thing, but I remember my 720 and 755 feeling weird for
the first few weeks also.
>Overall, the 560 walks an odd
>balance between feeling "cheap" and feeling sleek at the same time. I felt
>similarly about the 701 (but no longer do), so perhaps I'll either get used
>to it or the symptoms will ease up as it get "broken in" a bit.
Now *that's* had me curious. I felt the 560 in the store and it seemed to
be made of the same "cheap feeling" plastic as my wife's 355. Even my 755
feels worse than my 720 did.. I can't imagine that they're saving that much
money on the material, so there must be another reason for it?
>This
>makes for a cleaner attachment to the wall AC plug, but one more bit of
>stuff to carry and/or lose. Its not a huge thing, but neither is it as
>"neat" as the adapter included with the 701.
I like the neat adapters, but I've had trouble plugging in my 755's adapter
many times, so I might call that a fair trade :)
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