Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 07:51:41 05/31/02
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On May 31, 2002 at 06:10:49, Terry Ripple wrote: >The new Novags are claiming around 2450 to 2550. They also can save games and >will be able to be upgraded through the serial port that the Diamond will have. >Plus, one of the great features of the Novag handheld is that you can input >moves very fast on the screen with their special pointer enabling you to play a >fast game of blitz, so i don't see where the interface is losing out other than >the fact that it is a black and white LCD. Even if it realistically only hits >the 2300's, it still will crush the majority of us! Indeed ... but both hardware and software are plasticky and ugly; from the photographs I note they have these dire 'segmented' piece displays. (And clunky as well; the three AAA batteries will have to go somewhere ...). It's sad that small chess computers never seem to have much of a sense of aesthetics; at one point I had a Kasparov clamshell machine which was, relatively speaking, not bad and a Novag Amber which was indescribably hideous. Novag and Saitek should steal ideas from people like Sony ;) Alastair
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