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On Tue, 10 Feb 98 09:44:50 EST, Robert Dewar wrote: ><< I love my Sony video but their laptop keyboard (that I tried) >sucked....I'll take quality feel and the TrackPoint anytime as it now >stands. I'd prefer lighter, comfortable, fast and bright....not to mention >capable but its all about trade off$. I also still like the size and feel >of my 701...wish the upgrade results had been dramatic. >>> > >You could certainly not expect the upgrade results to be more than you >saw. Fast machines are more than a slightly faster clock speed in the >processor! > >Here is an idea, wouldn't it be nice if IBM would use its folding keyboard >technology from the 701 on a full size notebook, then they could make >a full sized keyboard with separate numeric pad and cursor cluster ... > No WAY, Jos‚! The main source of problems on my 701 have been the keyboard (and thus contributing to the hinges cracking/breaking), so that might now be a good idea after all. I'm sure IBM has a GOOD reason why they don't use it in any new ThinkPads. :) -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (If you get an error, then the server is not online) Current system statistics: The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 22 Processes with 86 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 22h 26m 30s 460ms.