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[TPall] Form factors (was: Re: 770 price cut)
> Everyone has a different limit :-) For myself, I can't see carrying
> anything larger than 12.1", and that's pushing it when you consider
> how unwieldy it is on a plane.
Hear hear! On my last two trips to England (a *very* long flight from
Hawaii) I had a TP701 on one trip, and a TP560 on the other. The 701
was much better suited to the plane seats (screen was OK even with the
seat ahead all the way back, and the smaller footprint gave me room on
the minitable for both the machine and the floppy), and the battery
life was better (slower CPU + smaller screen). Plus, the smaller
LxW part of the form factor made it easier than the
thin-but-otherwise-standard 560 to squeeze into a side pocket of my
carry-on luggage. Frankly, I'd gladly move back to the 701 if I could
keep the performance and [so far!] reliability of the 560.
BTW, on my last flight a guy several rows ahead of me had a machine with
a 13" TFT screen. Half the flight he couldn't use it because of the
seat ahead of him; when he *did* use it, I could very clearly see the
(confidential) report he was writing!
- David