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Greetings,
I've finally got around to subscribing to this invaluable list, and
I've been asked to introduce myself.
Here goes. I've been using notebooks for about four years. Earlier
machines include an active matrix Austin 486 and an early Gateway
Colorbook. My current notebook is a 560/133/2.1/40Mb/dual scan. I've
also got a "mint" 701C DX2/50/720/20Mb (this is my daughter's word
processor, game machine and AOL interface (she's thirteen).
I loved my 701C but couldn't handle the processor speed: it is slow,
especially with Win95 or WinNT loaded. It's a great size, and, if IBM
had stayed with a 10.4 inch display in a pentium machine, I bet its
successor would be in there at under four pounds. A quality built
machine (its got features that IBM abandoned when it went to the 560),
my biggest complaint is its keyboard. For me, touch typing meant too
many errors. The 560's is "heaven" by comparison.
I use my 560 at home and at work. It's on the "network" at the house
and on the network at work. Key accessories include a Panasonic 4x
pccard cdrom and an IBM 56K modem. I connect to the network via a PC
card (fujitsu) or Xircom parallel port unit (this one has NT 4.0
drivers!). When I got the machine I left the preload on a month or so
before I reformatted the hard drive, reinstalled OSR2 Win95 on drive
C, and Win NT 4.0 on drive D. I'd like to abandon Win95, but that
will have to wait for NT 5.0, with (hopefully) better driver support
and APM support. Oh, one other thing, the SCSI card that came with
the Panasonic CD ROM, it works great for interfacing my scanner, and
it's faster than a parallel port unit!
That's a start.
Regards,
Neil