Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!stanford.edu!unix!synoptics!franks From: franks@synoptics.com (Frank Stutzman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: SONY UNIX laptop Message-ID: <22263@mvis1.com> Date: 10 Apr 91 14:11:19 GMT References: Sender: news@synoptics.COM Lines: 48 |> The screen is small (11"), though the resolution is good. I saw |> document processing software running (FrameMaker, I believe), and it |> was readable. Not sure how prolonged reading of those small fonts |> would fare, though. The Connecting Point Store in Palo Alto had one the other weekend when I dropped in. They were pretty clueless about it (they normally deal with ms-dos laptops), but allowed me to wail away on it. Comments on its portablity are correct. This puppy is about as portable as your average bank vault (at least for me, but then again I'm no relative of Charles Atlas). The screen is ok, but I've seen better on other laptops. drift on... Wanna see something great? Go find one of the new HP lan analazers (I forget the model number), but its got a Sharp flat panel display (essentially a flat screen TV) on it. Great color and resolution and still quite small. The downside is that Sharp is selling these to HP at something like $3500 apiece (and that's in volume). Dunno where else you could find one other than the HP lan analyzer, which is ` really a ms-dos machine with extra lan hardware. drift off It seems to be fairly complete as far as softare: system V R4, NFS, X X windows. Both mwm and twm were there for window managers (it seems that by default it comes up with twm, I suspect to give a better demo as mwm tends to be a pig). X ran ok, but when I started loading up the system, you really could watch the the context switches between processes (now that may have actually been the X server doing window updates, I'm not sure). It came with a three button mouse and all the connectivity that you could want (ok, so I think that an ethernet port is all anybody needs). The processor is a mips R3000 and I don't rememeber how much memory it had or the disk size (although it must be a fairly fast disk, as I loaded it to the point of forcing it to swap processes and it performed probably as well as the sparc on my desk). Anyway I worked with for about 30 minutes and I'd buy one if 1) I was much richer 2) I was of heroic enough size to lug it around and 3) I really needed a portable unix machine (maybe someday) |==========================================================================| |Frank Stutzman | The network is the computer | |SynOptics, Communcations, Inc | The T-connector is the network | |Santa Clara, Ca | The computer is a T-connector? | |franks@synoptics.com | | |==========================================================================|