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At 05:47 PM 4/28/98 -0700, Randal Whittle wrote: > Okay Jane, since you had it for evaluation (what were the circumstances >for which you were evaluating it?), > (I do evals to pick the hardware we buy.) >you can now report to us everything you have to say about it! > Well, I loved it and didn't want to give it back. Hmm... guess you probably want more. My manager has a 560X, so I was able to stare and compare the two up close. I like the 600 much better. It's only .25" thicker than the 560X and really didn't feel appreciably heavier even with the CD-ROM installed (my TP is a 760XL, so they both feel like feathers to me). While I like the 560, I don't like having everything external. With my 760XL, I always leave the CD-ROM installed in the Ultrabay and seldom ever carry the floppy with me. With the 560, the external CD-ROM would mean I would have another "thing" to keep up with if I wanted to carry the CD-ROM with me. The 600 is the best of both worlds - light and convenient. Screen is typical TP TFT screen. Keyboard was good. It comes with the cable to attach the floppy externally so you don't have to figure out how to get it later. I wish the keyboard tilted like the one on the 760. I also wish you could still get to everything by raising the keyboard. You have to have a screwdriver to change drives, and I don't like that. I wish they had left the little LCD panel on it. There was something else I whined about, but I don't remember what it was right now. It was something small, though, I think. What else do you want to know? I don't really have benchmarks to give you if that's what you want. It's fast. It worked. I liked it. I want one. I'd swap my 760XL for the 600 even if it only had 166MHz MMX. (OTOH, my director who has a 560 said the footprint was too big for him even though it meant he got a 13.3" screen.) >the touchpad drove me crazy) > I hate touchpads. I can't control one for squat, and I'm always brushing my thumbs over it making Unexpected Things happen if it's below the keyboard. Jane Oh, I remember what else I was whining about. The cover for the modem jack wasn't attached to the machine. It's about the size of my thumbnail, so I said it'd be gone on never to be seen again about Day 3 if it was mine. I want it anyway.