[rescue] non-Intel laptop for general use?

N. Miller velociraptor at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 12:30:27 CDT 2007


On Oct 30, 2007, at 6:24 AM, der Mouse wrote:

>> Anything non-modern and non-intel is likely to be ballbreaking, slow
>> and have a very short battery life.
>
> My "good" laptop is an IBM WorkPad z50.  MIPS CPU, about two hours of
> battery life (which isn't up to a good new laptop, but pretty good for
> something its age), and lighter than any other portable I've ever
> handled.  (It *is* comparatively slow.)

Small is good.  I looked at that Asus eee 701 that Lionel posted and  
am drooling over the form factor (.92kg).  I wish Apple would get on  
with the Newton replacement, dammit.

=Nadine=



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