[geeks] Wish lists

[Ken Hansen]

Amy,

Agree with you on all points - the Voyager was an indulgence, pure and simple. My SPARCbooks are never taken out of the house for the very reason you mention - pitiful battery life.

My SB 3GXs get light work as reference Solaris machines, but are, in reality, shelf queens. I like them, but I don't have a need to use them in a portable situation (although I may wind up using one as a short-term intranet web server at work, due to the minimal footprint, built-in UPS,and the "cool" factor ;^).

I (like you, IIRC) was quite fond of the Librettos (I have an L50 and an L110), but the burgeoning Carpal Tunnel Syndrome pain i my right wrist was caused, I think, by the pointer in the L110...

My newest portable machine is a Toshiba Portege 3020ct (10.4" screen at 800x600, P/300 CPU, 96 Meg RAM, and a 6.4 Gig HD - but wrapped up in a unit the size of a 3/4" think stack of notebook paper, 8"x11"). The Thnikpads are nice, some are *real nice*, but too expensive when *my* money is involved...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: amy [mailto:nospam at frenzy.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:01 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Wish lists




Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> As a man with both, a Voyager (Thanks Pete!) and *two* SParcbooks, I can tell you > that the Sparcbook is a more affordable machine.

voyagers and sparcbooks. we've had both around here (and multiple
sparcbooks..8 or 9). the voyager was sold after being deemed 'a cool
pain in the ass'. the sparcbooks were so low on battery life as to be
useless in any 'portable' situation no matter what the cost. the
ultrabooks were all very nice but heavy and expensive for your average
wallet. 

between the three, the lesser of all evils is a sparcbook (3gx comes to
mind). but it's still evil. ;) i think the going rate for them on ebay
is around 600. most found there are from the same batch that was
advertised on sunhelp about a year and a half ago.

around here when i'm traveling for more than a week i drag my thinkpad
with me/us. 

--a
_______________________________________________
GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks