Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!prls!pyramid!leadsv!practic!vlsisj!davidc
From: davidc@vlsisj.VLSI.COM (David Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Market Study for laptops and your input?
Summary: lightweight, please
Message-ID: <15483@vlsisj.VLSI.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 90 11:27:30 GMT
References: <1777@apt.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidc@vlsisj.UUCP (David Chapman)
Distribution: usa
Organization: VLSI Technology Inc., San Jose, CA
Lines: 28

In article <1777@apt.UUCP> brian@apt.UUCP (Brian Litzinger) writes:
]My company is about to commence a market study of laptop computers
]for one of our clients.
]Do the readers of this group wish to have an opportunity to offer
]their opinions on laptops, their designs, and the features they'd
]like to see in future laptop designs?
]Or is it improper to use this forum for such a purpose?

My next laptop will have a hard disk (40 MB minimum) and high-res graphics 
(at least 640 by 480).  Less than 10 pounds is a must.  I have a Z-88 that
weighs 2 pounds.  I've been spoiled by it; it's so light that I don't think 
twice about taking it along.

The Compaq LTE/286 (whatever; the 6-pound one) is nice but CGA isn't
enough.  It's pricey, too, but for 6 pounds or less (preferably less)
I can live with the price (sell all my stock :-).

Oh, yeah - at least a 12 MHz 80286, though I'll tolerate more MIPS for
the same money.

Never underestimate the appeal of light weight - the stores here (Silicon
Valley) can't keep the LTE in stock.  I may have to wait a year to get a
5 or 6 pound laptop with VGA and 40 MB, but I'm sure it will happen.
-- 
		David Chapman

{known world}!decwrl!vlsisj!fndry!davidc
vlsisj!fndry!davidc@decwrl.dec.com