Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!boulder!pikes!udenva!news From: news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Atari Portfolio Message-ID: <12613@udenva.cair.du.edu> Date: 15 Jan 90 01:17:17 GMT References: <7696@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> Reply-To: bdahlen@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Robert L. Dahlen @ U. of Denver USA=) Organization: Univ. of Denver, CO, USA Lines: 38 In article <7696@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> butcher@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu.UCSD.EDU (David Butcher (Ugrad_Guest_FB)) writes: > > I recently got to test drive a Portfolio for about 2 months. In my opinion, >I think it's brain dead. I am, however, looking forward to the next version of >the Portfolio, it has a lot of promise. It comes stock with 28K of memory and >the screen is half the size of normal. The little 128K rom cards cost about What???!!! The current Portfolio has 128K. Plenty for me so far. >$100.00 each and there's only room for one. It came with a LapLink type >utility to download programs from a PC into the Portfolio which was handy, but >ran down the batteries. After about an hour of use the Portfolio's batteries >died out. Unfortunately, they're non-rechargable. The keyboard is usuable only What???!!! I have had mine for two months, probably 80-100 hours of actual computing time. You probably should have tried new batteries. >if you have tiny fingers. It comes with no graphics capabilities and the phone >dialing utility is too quiet. Only after about five tries was I able to get my Agreed. >phone to recognize it. I don't remember what version of DOS it had, but it was >very similar to DOS 2.0. > On the plus side, it is SMALL and cheap. Compared to the Poquet, it's a >steal for what you get. The keyboard is better then the Poquet. It's too bad Agreed again. >the screen is half size and the batteries have such a short life. They >provide a utility to mimic a full screen, but it ain't the same! > But its not bad given its size, weight, and cost. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Dahlen - Director, Information Systems & Technology University of Denver - Denver, Colorado 80208 (303) 871-4385 INET:bdahlen@du.edu BITNET:bdahlen@ducair UUCP:ncar!dunike!bdahlen