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From: steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: SONY UNIX laptop
Keywords: sony unix laptop
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Date: 4 Apr 91 16:55:12 GMT
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In article <18525@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:

>The April UNIX World has an advertisement for the SONY NEWS 3250
>laptop, which they say runs UNIX, X windows etc., comes with 8-32MB
>RAM and either a 240 or a 406MB hard drive, 1120x780 display, and
>ethernet, SCSI, serial and parallel ports. It sounds just wonderful,
>though the fact that they don't mention the price suggests it isn't
>cheap. Has anyone seen one of these?

I've used one for several days, and I liked it a lot: fast, good
implementation of Unix, with NFS and SLIP. It's not a laptop, it's a
portable; it's heavy for a lot of carrying around; mains only.

The LCD is OK: mono, fast, reasonable reading angle. A lot of
ghosting, but experimenting with xsetroot reduces this to a usable
level. I used the machine to give a demo at a conference, and with a
big font it was quite acceptable for a group of 20 or so people to be
able to see what I was doing.

The price they were quoting (here in the Netherlands) was quite
reasonable compared to what we pay for other types of workstations.
It would make a great home machine!

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@cwi.nl
"Let us go then you and I/while the night is laid out against the sky/like a
					smear of mustard on an old pork pie"
Nice poem Tom. I have ideas for changes though, why not come over? - Ezra