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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