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From: khester@cs.utexas.edu (Stewart Kevin Hester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Notebook Manufacturers Listen Up!
Message-ID: <1419@yoakum.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 00:55:48 GMT
References: <1991May04.204037.21028@eng.cam.ac.uk>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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	First:	I WANT IT!  You have hit the nail on the head, all I want is
a machine that I can download files to and edit 'on the trail'.

	Second: Not to add features (and $$$) but I would like to elaborate on
the ideas presented.

	1) If you are going to have 640x480, then let people use a 50 line text
mode.  It may not be pretty, but it would be useful.
	2) If you are going to put stuff in rom, put in MS-DOS and some sort
of file transfer program.
	3) Make the batteries last a long time :-).

	4) If you want to have a big screen, put the screen in one half of the
shell and the keyboard in the other half - a la Zeos notebook.
	5) Re: $500.  I have been considering buying a 286/386 notebook but I
have not done it because all I want is a 640x480 screen to edit text with!  (I
would also be uncomfortable carring a $2000 computer in my backpack.)

khester@cs.utexas.edu
S. Kevin Hester