Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!toto.cis.ohio-state.edu!pollack From: pollack@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B Pollack) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Macintosh Portable Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 16:05:02 GMT References: <1394@milton.acs.washington.edu> <75725@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 23 In-reply-to: sas@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 16 Jan 90 15:47:41 GMT I played with maclaptop for a couple of hours at a local computer store. The screen is amazingly fast, because it is not really an LCD, which is multiplexed, but a Thin-film Transistor (TFT) display, apparently the first on the market. Does anyone know the (OEM) details on this screen and when it will appear in products such as other laptops and overhead projector panels? The button for the trackball is located on the bottom rather than the left of the ball, which was very awkward for me. I'm surprised that Apple let this ergonomic bug escape. I expect that heavy maclaptop users will develop a wrist disease (Carpal-something syndrome?) common in the meat packing industry! Finally, I am amazed that a hard-disk laptop could run 8 hours on a battery. Could the power requirements really be half of equivalent PC machines? -- Jordan Pollack Assistant Professor CIS Dept/OSU Laboratory for AI Research 2036 Neil Ave Email: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 Fax/Phone: (614) 292-4890