Questions from a new user...

["Henry S. Greenside" <hsg@phy.duke.edu>]

Just bought a 560E with 12.1" TFT screen, 48 MB RAM,
2.1 GB drive for my research group here at Duke
University. It has been set up to run both Win95 and
Linux (Red Hat 4.2) and so far works quite nicely. (For
the curious, I bought the machine fully configured as a
dual-bootable machine from SW Technology, who offer
excellent prices and service for people interested in
Linux.)

Had some questions as a new user:

1. I would like to insure it, especially as a
   portable. Inside the 560E box was a card from the
   R. C. Knox company, offering three years of
   insurance for about $230 (for this particular
   model). Does anyone have any comments about this
   insurance policy or whether there are other better
   alternatives?  Has anyone purchased this particular
   insurance?

2. The Win95 came loaded with lots of stuff (like the
   Lotus Suite) that I have no need for and would like
   to delete to free up space. Is there a roadmap
   somewhere of what is contained in all the many
   preinstalled folders and whether I can safely delete
   various folders without affecting the performance of
   the machine? I would like to strip the Win95
   partition to a minimum and then add back various
   applications and data.

Only potential problem I have seen so far is that the
hinges covering the floppy disk port and PCMCIA ports
are cheaply made and look like they will easily break
off. Am surprised that IBM could not engineer a better
solution, e.g., imitate what Micron does on their
Transports in which a port cover simply slides out of
the way, with no easy way for breakage or loss.

	Thanks,

	Henry