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On Tue, 07 Apr 98 22:30:08 -0800, Paul Khoury wrote: >On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 22:41:42 -1000, David Ross wrote: > >>>> Also--I'm curious: Do TFT displays weigh a significant amount? Enough to >>>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). >> >> >>I don't think that DSTN is any more analog than TFT, and the extra circuitry >>in the latter would consist of a handful of chips, hardly a major >>weight-producer. >> >DSTN constantly refreshes the display, typical of analog displays. > >TFT uses transistors for the pixels, and is more digital. > >And I know that the chips are very few, but ironically, the specs on raw >LCDs show TFT to be lighter than DSTN (I was going to buy a TFT for my >server, but got a STN for my field work instead). > >>>If you think that's heavy, my SPARCbook is supposed to weigh 7.5 lbs, I'm >> >>I have a Micron which is heavier, but don't consider it a 'laptop':-) >> >This has NO floppy nor CD-ROM (a 595/495 option, respecitvely), but it >at least has ISDN, the IBM Trackpoint (same Lexmark keyboard, minus the Fn >key), and 10BaseT. Considering I have to haul around an external CD-ROM, >it's HEAVY! > >>>I guess it depends on what you're used to. I used to lug around my original >>IBM PC around when that >> >> >>I can match that - try cross-country skiing across a frozen lake with a >>Morrow MicroDecision (CP/M, circa 1981) strapped to your back! >> >When I went cross-country sking, I only had my HP Omnigo straped to my >back <g> (Geoworks, circa 1997). It's roughtly the size of a 3.5" IDE HD. In fact, >it's exactly the size. I also brought my ThinkPad, but I left it in my room (only I and the >vice principal brought notebooks; it was >a school trip). > >Okay, back to ThinkPad stuff... > >-- >Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org >Sent from my P75 Server running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 6 >There are 27 Processes with 93 Threads. >This machine's uptime is 3d 9h 35m 54s 531ms. > > >-- >Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org >Sent from my P75 Server running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 6 >There are 27 Processes with 98 Threads. >This machine's uptime is 4d 9h 25m 13s 531ms. > -- 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 22 Processes with 87 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 1h 23m 21s 382ms.