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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Observations on the Portable
Message-ID: <851@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Oct 89 00:58:11 GMT
References: <463b736d.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> <119138@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <119138@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:

>I used a trackball for quite a while and got used to how they work, but the
>trackball on our "trial for one day" portable was just too sloppy. The 
>tiniest movement sends the cursor flying. Try drawing two boxes and lining
>them up. You can't remove your hand from the trackball without changing the
>size of the box.

Well, I've played around with the Portable in the Microcomputer Center here for
awhile, and I didn't find there to be any real trouble with the trackball.
It's sensitivity is controllable in the Control Panel with the Mouse CDEV, just
as with a mouse.  I actually turned up the sensitivity to full to make it
easier to position objects without having to remove the hand from the trackball
to gain more rotations.  There may be machine-to-machine variations, though.

My only complaint with this beast so far is that there's a dead pixel on the
display.  It's just kind of light grey and doesn't turn black when it should.
Too bad.

Question:  How much memory can be added to this beastie?  If it's really stuck
at 2048K, then somebody made a really big mistake.  I couldn't even open two
applications under MultiFinder with 2M!  2.5 seems to be the bare minimum for
MF.

--Mike

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