Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:37:53 05/09/02
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On May 09, 2002 at 16:20:08, Keith Ian Price wrote: >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 Back in the mid-'80s VGA meant specifically 640x480 with 16 colors and SVGA was used to describe *anything* better than that, including 640x480 with 64 or 256 colors. Of course, that's so long ago that a 80286 was considered fast if it ran at 8 MHz rather than 6 MHz, 800x600 was almost unheard-of, EGA (640x350) was still the most common, and some people still had CGA (640x200)! :-)
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