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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (7974)	6/28/1999 8:37:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Hi, Howard, nice to hear from you again. Processor form-factor spins have accellerated so fast that I don't think it's reasonable to expect anything approaching three years any more. After a year, you're probably toast. That's why my (corporate) laptop still sports a 75mhz P5. Still in essence you're right. Know what I miss want on that laptop? A bigger SCREEN. I'll take the 75 mhz. True for some things which I do occasionally it's slow. Last week for instance I had occasion to travel for personal reasons but had to bring work with me, and serious database queries which would run in under 5 minutes at home ran an hour. BUT the real problem was screen real estate. No reasonable way you could upgrade that. I'm almost to the point of opting for a luggable case with a standard motherboard. Put a separate flat-screen display in a portable package, another separate reasonably compact keyboard in a portable package, and I bet you could come in under 25 pounds with some serious, upgradable components. Porter! Hey, porter! Actually, I travel more by car nowadays anyhow <ggg>. And I'm more likely to order another Beefeater martini than do any serious work on an airplane. Plus, I gotta admit, I'm also interested in porting it out to the porch, or maybe out by the pool (during those months when the pool is inflated, eh, Peter? <GG>). Far as I know, though, nobody's seriously looking into this mode of PC. Anybody remember the Osborn Luggable? Maybe I'll have to seize the entrepreneurial opportunity ... Anyhow, nice to hear from you again. Spots