At 04:53 PM 9/2/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>ENOUGH ALREADY
>The X series has a 12 inch LCD, it is QUITE SMALL, and while I respect the
>fact that you are a fan of the 701 series, it is DEAD, GONE, BURIED.
>ANCIENT, not capable of anything anymore.
Ditto.
I loved my 701, but even in its day, it was almost obsolete
(technology-wise, with a 486 chip) from the day it was introduced amid
early Pentium notebook introductions.
Cute & compact design or not, its simply obsolete in the extreme
today. Its nothing more than a historical curiosity now.
Now here's the interesting thing...it really *wasn't* that small
to begin with! The folding keyboard stuck out a full inch or so on either
side when it "unfolded". It has a cool "wow" factor, but it didn't make it
especially small. It was a fair bit thicker than my current 600 and
T20/T23 machines, and certainly about as deep. What it "lost" on the sides
(thanks to the folding keyboard) it had to gain in depth (so there would be
space for the keyboard to fold into). Then there was that persnickety
battery issue where it would get "stuck" and wouldn't charge the battery...
Anyway, the 701 was neat in a lot of ways--but practically
irrelevant now. Subnotebooks have largely been replaced by handhelds (try
a wireless palm-based Treo--a have a friend that doesn't even travel with a
laptop anymore, thanks to what he can do with his Treo, from web-surfing to
e-mail, and of course it's also his cell-phone), and the 701 would never
suffice for a notebook today with its 640x480 screen, even if it could
magically have today's CPU power & RAM capacity. Its like a
turbine-engined automobile--cool at the time, but now recognized as not the
real solution, though still worthy of a place in the museum.
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