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Subject: Re: 600 MHz Touch-screen IBM computer $700 [OT]

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 13:20:08 05/09/02

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On May 09, 2002 at 14:25:45, Roy Eassa wrote:

>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...)!

Everywhere I've seen SVGA it means 800x600. XGA is 1024x768; Super XGA is
1280x1024.

kp



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