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On Fri, 03 Apr 1998 21:49:50 -0800, Randal Whittle wrote: >At 12:08 PM 4/3/98 , Jane Loyless wrote: >>At 07:10 AM 4/3/98 -0800, you wrote: >> >>>Yeah, I know--the 600 series should be coming out soon that will >>>incorporate the same kind of features (at least the ability to insert a CD >>>drive--I don't know about the larger screen & etc.) >>> >> >>The TP600 looks pretty interesting from this review: >> >>http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/firstlooks/9804/f980402a.htm > > Wow...6 1/2 pounds with the CD drive in? That's almost 1 full pound >heavier than the Versa 5000 series with its CD drive in, and a *almost* 2 >1/2 pounds heavier than the 560 (which is a mere 4.1 lbs)! > > Looks to me like IBM remembered the part about "thin", but forgot the >"light". We know it can be done (adding in modularity like an insertable >CD-Drive) in less weight in these same dimensions (12" x 9.5" x 1.5" >thick), because NEC does in in the Versa 5000 series in 5.6 lbs. (with >CD-Drive in. A touch over 5 lbs. with an empty bay). So why does IBM's >stab at this weigh so much? > > Also--I'm curious: Do TFT displays weigh a significant amount? Enough to >make a significant difference between, say, a 12.1" screen and a 13.3" >screen? Or 14.1" screen? About how much would that difference be? Is it >mostly the glass (or whatever it is)? > Glass, metal, plastic, and the circuit boards. TFT's have more circuitry because they're all digital, whereas DSTN and STN would be more analog (AFAIK). If you think that's heavy, my SPARCbook is supposed to weigh 7.5 lbs, I'm assuming without the battery (since I never got one with it), and it has NO CD-ROM nor floppy (a $595 option!), however, it has a TFT and a 110MHz processor. I guess it depends on what you're used to. I used to lug around my original IBM PC around when that was my main computer, and that's 32 lbs., minus the heavy keyboard and CGA CRT!!! -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 5 There are 19 Processes with 72 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 2h 50m 42s 726ms. -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 5 There are 19 Processes with 72 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 2h 50m 56s 273ms.