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To: cfimx who wrote (9016)	4/12/1998 8:47:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

Converse, think, read, write, dictate, sleep, eat, watch the movie, listen to music. Quite frankly, I've never been able to get much done on a plane WITH a notebook computer; the batteries don't last, and the lack of connectivity doesn't help. NO BIG DEAL! JMHO.

To: cfimx who wrote (9016)	4/13/1998 8:39:00 AM
From: Scott McPeely	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Defining the NC client for the real world A survey was done at NC World, the official anti-MSFT rag for network computers. ncworldmag.com This controversial aspect of network-centric computing has been much debated. To make things clear, we still do not advocate local data storage. However, we did make secondary disk storage used as a cache, and removable disks, a possibility. For main memory, it appears that almost everyone demands at least 64MB of RAM (76.3). This was fairly surprising to us considering that the norm for most corporate desktops today is still 32MB. Even 16MB systems are still fairly common. High (Greater than 64MB) - 76.3% The answers to the secondary storage cache requirements question pointed out that most people thought they would need more than 100MB of space to keep applications and data temporarily resident while they are working (30.9). Only a small fraction (2.1) thought that there should be no secondary cache whatsoever. Most of the respondents in the Other category did not give specifics, indicating that they probably thought they should have some secondary storage cache but did not know specifically how much. Very Large (Greater than 500MB) - 21.6% Large (100MB - 500MB) - 30.9% None 2.1% Again contrary to the claims of vendors that network computing will not need removable storage devices, a number of respondents indicated that they would need floppy, CD-ROM, or 100MB disk (Iomega ZIP for example) drives. An almost equal number of people thought that such a device should be optional. Only 4 percent did not want any form of removable storage. The gaining interest here would be PC Card storage devices which are just emerging in desktops. CD-ROM - 29.9% Zip Drive - 20.6% PC-Card - 14.4% None - 4.1% **************************** With these requirements, you can run NT5.0!!! The NC sounds a lot like the PC to me. But of course it doesn't have the magical powers of Java.

To: cfimx who wrote (9016)	4/13/1998 8:59:00 AM
From: Scott McPeely	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Do you really want to lug around that heavy portable? Of course not. When you get to your hotel, you can use the NC installed in your room to log onto your company server and perform all your work. All you have to do is wait about twenty years until a reliable world wide data network is built. Now leave me alone while I try to think of a way to crush the freeware punks who are trying to promote Linux on Intel. Those fools at Netscape think Linux is their salvation.