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On Fri, 16 Jan 98 09:20:25 EST, Robert Dewar wrote: ><<I *like* the "ludicrous under-the-keyboard design"! Perhaps you don't >put your notebooks through what I do on a day-to-day basis. I agree on that. I liked it as well, because everything was convinent, and that was another factor which prompted me to buy the 355C. Perhaps >you've not had the problems I have had in the past. Perhaps you don't >doubt the logevity as I do since you may change models more often than >I. I have used the 770 a bit, and it seems a nice design. I still think >that we have yet to see how the latches they have used hold up to hard >use. >>> > >Yup, I still label it as FUD. There is absolutely ZERO reason to worry >about the latches failing. Actually, pointing to a particular bit of >technology, and with no good reason at all [in this case not even having >seen it!] asking ominously "what if it failed?" is classical FUD. Are >you absolutely sure you don't work for Toshiba :-) > If Steve say's he's owned ThinkPads since the first one came out, then I think not. :-) >Anyway, my opinion, having examined the technology in question is that >this is the most solid design I have seen for external batteries. Your >worries are completely groundless. > Well, I wouldn't say that. >One of the major attractions of the Toshiba was a relatively decent battery >design which would allow one to change a battery without dismantling the >machine (and in particular without unplugging the CDROM - what an incredible >goof in design that was). > >On the other hand, the lack of positive latching on the Toshiba did on a >couple of occasions cause me the annoyance of battery fallout (although to >be fair this was when using 720 batteries on a 740 -- I can't see that the >little bit of plasic crap that is in question makes a difference, but who >knows). > >THe 770 design is really nice. The devices fit snugly in their bays, and >indeed require quite a bit of effort to dislodge. The mechanism is first >to release the catch on the front. This frees the device and releases a >lever on the front. The device is still nowhere near coming out of its >slot. You can turn the machine on its side and shake it and the device >(battery, CD ROM etc) is not about to come out, even with the latch >released. To release it you have to apply quite a considerable amount >of force on the front panel lever, and then the device dislodges and >you can then remove it. > >Once again, the thing I really like is that you can pop a battery in >either side, and change one while the other is going, so that you can >change batteries without even having to suspend (if you don't need the >CD ROM right then). > For me, I don't really care, just as long as I can change the batteries. And for me, I probably couldn't afford to buy another battery anyways. :-) >The other thing I think is improved in the design is the keyboard. SO far, >it feels much better than the 760 keyboard, which was a piece of junk, and >indeed IBM had to redesign it (I never did see the redesigned version). >I am sure that it helps not to have to make it tilt like the old one (that >tilting mechanism was also a real design flaw. For one thing it made the >machine noiser, and I disliked the way the entire keyboard bounced up and >down as you typed on it. > If you think that is bad, try the TrackWrite keyboard. IMO, that thing is a piece of crap, and for that reason, I would never buy a 701 again (unless the price was UNBEATABLE!). -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 28 Processes with 106 Threads. This machine's uptime is 2d 17h 22m 31s 500ms.