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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.