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From: brian@king.csd.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: NEC Ultralite (would like opinions on it)
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Date: 24 Apr 91 23:04:39 GMT
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smb7@jaguar.ucs.uofs.edu (BRANCATI STEPHEN M) writes:


>	I saw someone talking about an add in a DAK catalog offerring NEC ultra
>lites for $699, and sure enough a day later a DAK catalog showed up at my door
>(how convenient).  Would anyone out there like to offer their opinions on the 
>NEC Ultralite (the original--no disks of any kind, v30, 640k + 1meg Ramdisk) 
>and the price it is being offered for.  I'm really wondering about battery life
>and does the "Silicon Hard Disk" lose its contents when the charge goes. (Maybe
>I hope for too much.)

Well, depending on what you want to do with it, $699 can be an attractive
price.  Another $200 for the second 1MB of silicon hard disk is a bit difficult
to swallow, but I bought it anyway.  The battery lasts about 2 hours (less
if you're using the modem, more if you lower the CPU speed).  The battery
is replaceable, so if you get an extra one or two you can get that much more
use before finding a power outlet.  The silicon hard disk is powered by
a seperate non-replaceable battery which recharges along with the main
battery.  It supposedly lasts for a week without a charge.  If the disk
battery goes, so does your data.  However, if the main battery goes, your
disk data stays put.

If you want more info, including some informal reviews and discussion about
applications, you may want to subscribe to the UltraLite mailing list.  Send
your subscription request to:

  ultralite-request@csd.mot.com

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-Brian Smithson
 Motorola Inc., Computer Group, Commercial Systems Division
 10700 N. De Anza Boulevard, Cupertino, CA 95014 USA, (408)366-4104
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