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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (34236)	7/27/2002 3:42:53 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Yup! The notes at the bottom tell it all. Not only is it a slower 750 mhz PIII, it SpeedSteps down when unplugged to conserve battery life and STILL NEEDS 2 BATTERIES TO ACHIEVE THE 6 HOUR TARGET. Is there anything a Windows conformist wont put up with? HerbVic 1 (street) Price includes cost of docking station or port replicator, and optical and floppy drives, if included. 2 Performance word scores reflect comparisons of PCs running the same operating system. 3 All CPUs are SpeedStep chips, which run at a slower speed when on battery power. 4 Minimum weight reflects the weight of the notebook by itself. Maximum weight includes the weight of the computer, AC adapter, power cord, docking station or port replicator, optical drive, and floppy drive or supplementary battery, if included. 5 In order: width, depth, height. 6 Wireless PC Card costs $100 extra.

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (34236)	7/27/2002 8:52:24 PM
From: Artslaw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213182

Questions about PC laptops: When on an airplane just before landing, can you pause a movie and sleep the machine by simply closing the cover - even while the movie is running? And then after the next plane reaches altitude, will the movie start-up where it stopped simply by opening the cover? Yes. In fact, you can configure it to either save to disk or suspend to memory when the case closes, and then revive on the opening {of course, if you have a secure computer, it should ask for a password upon revival, but if you use your computer as a toy, then this would obviously be hassle). PC laptops allow one to configure any number of things upon various events (like case open, case close, power switch press, etc). Personally, I prefer my laptop immediately suspend to disk on LCD closure; staying is suspend mode also wastes batteries, and nothing is worse than the low battery alarm going off at some inopportune time (although you can have it suspend to disk after a short time if not revived). Steve