Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:25:45 05/09/02
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On May 09, 2002 at 14:22:23, Keith Ian Price wrote: >On May 09, 2002 at 13:59:41, Roy Eassa wrote: > >> >>http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?SKU=i70-267561up >> >> >>Has anybody here seen or used this device? It's very unusual! >> >>Intel Mobile Pentium III 600MHz processor, 64MB memory, 10GB hard drive, modem >>and 10/100 Ethernet---plus a unique "pivot" 10.4-inch enhanced IBM TFT display. >>There's full PCMCIA support, Windows 2000, 2 USB ports and more! A full >>notebook, cleverly built into a portfolio! But that's not all! There's also a >>plain-paper notepad on the right side---which actually captures your >>hand-written notes---and stores them for you (without even turning on the PC) as >>editable text! >> >>Also, I think it's got a touch screen (i.e., use with a stylus). The $1800 >>"regular" price seems inflated, but at $700 I wonder whether this might be as a >>reasonable (and much faster) "replacement" for an iPAQ, especially for chess. > > >Actually cdw.com does list these for $1729.00, so this is a very good price if >someone wanted one. > >kp If I knew I could increase the RAM to at least 256 MB without too much difficulty or expense, it seems awful tempting. Also, they list the resolution as "SVGA" but that term isn't well-enough defined (IMHO). Is it 800x600? If it can do 1024x768 and the RAM is expandable as mentioned before, this DOES seem like a pretty neat carry-around chess computer (once you add Fritz/Junior/Tiger/Shredder/Hiarcs/Century...)!
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