From: Randal Whittle (whittle_at_chaph.usc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 02 1994 - 20:14:56 EDT
>
> I've just placed the order with IBM for a TP360. I'm now looking for a
> wordprocessor that's battery friendly. I currently use Word 2.0c, but it
> appears to be too disk intensive for my little battery. Toshiba took
> pleasure in telling me Claris Works only fires up the hard drive for saves
> and loads, but I know noone that can verify this. IF anyone has found a
> battery friendly windows based wordprocessor could they please let me
> know. I'd still use Word for my presentation quality work (hell I've
> paid for it I may as well use it!), so the wordprocessor doesn't need to
> be a DTP system!
Having more memory makes a big difference--otherwise the disk
activity you see may well be the swapfile activity.
I use Ami Pro with no apparent disk activity (but I also have 12 MB)
except for saves, loads, and spell checks. Maybe something else, but
certainly not a lot.
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