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- From: todd@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara)
- Subject: Re: Anyone seen a Gateway 2000 Handbook?
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:57:18 GMT
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- In article <13269@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan T'so) writes:
- >In article <marcl.710692345@os-d> marcl@os-d.isc-br.com (H. Marc Lewis) writes:
- >>Has anyone actually seen, or had their hands on, a Gateway 2000 Handbook?
-
- > I have also been very interested in it and its ilk, that is,
- >sub-notebooks. One question that seems to be unclear is just whether
- >the Handbook can run Windows. Several superficial magazine reviews
- >have stated that it can run Windows 3.0. Some Gateway salesman say
- >that it runs Windows fine. Others say that it can only run Windows 3.0
- >and not Windows 3.1, and that it doesn't run 3.0 very well. Also
-
- The Gateway Handbook (which a Gateway rep says will not ship until August)
- is a doubtful candidate to run Windows 3.0 or 3.1 in my opinion.
-
- 1. It has a C&T 286 clone CPU. I've seen Windows 3.0 and 3.1 run on
- various old 10 & 12MHz 386 boxes. The words "slow" and "sluggish" do
- not even begin to describe the feeling you get when trying to do
- anything on such units. I understand that turning off TrueType display
- to the CRT speeds things up a bit. But that seems to defeat the purpose
- of a WYSIWYG environment to me.
- 2. The 20MB disk drive is just too small to run Windows applications
- software. E.g., lets say you want Windows 3.1, Word for Windows (or
- WordPerfect for Windows or AmiPro), and Excel (or Lotus 1-2-3 for
- Windows or the soon-to-be-released Quattro Pro for Windows) on your
- system. I think that most folks would agree that this is a reasonable
- collection of applications (a word processor and a spreadsheet). Even
- after dumping tutorial and sample files, I'm not sure you would have
- much room for work files (document and spreadsheet files).
- 3. If Windows does not support the Handbook's double scan mode (640x400),
- you would be stuck looking at a 620x200 B/W screen (no shades of gray
- either). That would be pretty hard on the eyes.
-
- I think the Gateway 2000 Handbook is a pretty interesting looking
- sub-notebook. However, I don't think anyone would want to try to work with
- Windows 3.x on it for any length of time.
-
- On the other hand, it would probably be a good candidate to run something
- like Q&A 4.0 or some reasonble collection of DOS apps that could be
- squeezed onto a 20MB hard disk.
-
- BTW. I'd be interested to know if Stacker or SuperStor works on the
- Handbook. Those programs would provide at least a little more working disk
- space.
- --
- Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii, Psychology Department
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