Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Why is everyone dumping their laptops? Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 91 14:20:53 GMT References: <666@synopsys.COM> <91032.131635TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET's message of 1 Feb 91 14:59:43 GMT >>>>> On 1 Feb 91 14:59:43 GMT, TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET (Turgut Kalfaoglu) said: > I suspect people say 'a CGA with 8088 will be plenty for me' and after > suffering (for example) Windows 3 under CGA and 8088, they give up. > Look at me, I was saying that I won't be playing games with it, so CGA > is enough, and now I wish it was VGA.. -turgut My laptop is a T1000XE, an 8086 with CGA. I routinely use a text editor, spreadsheet, terminal program, a personal information manager, plus little programs like calculators and calendars. All of these programs work just fine in such an environment, and they prove very useful to me. No 386, no VGA, no Windows 3.0. And given that the 386 boxes I've seen running Windows3 update the screen slower than a Mac SE, I'm not sure I ever want to use it. I'm satisfied with my choice, and I think that for a lot of things people want to do with their laptops, a minimal machine is sufficient. m. -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com "Long before one is anything like drunk, the tongue is loosened, and words may slip out which should never have been said. Watch this particularly when it's all girls together. That femimine urge to confide may trick you into repeating what your husband said about the president and the boss's wife and how that had a lot to do with the boss's promotion -- words one of the women present is sure to make you regret some day." --Nina Fischer, "How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead" part of the Amy Vanderbilt Success Program for Women