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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: LAPTOPS & OS/2
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:32:31 GMT
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- In article <1g1ro0INN86m@gap.caltech.edu> werdna@cco.caltech.edu (Andrew Tong) writes:
-
- >> Although it is definitely possible to run OS/2 on a laptop, especially
- >> with the new plethora of 386-based, 120mb+, 8mb-capable notebooks that
- >> have flooded the market, I'm wondering if it's actually useful to do such
- >> a thing.
- >>
- >> Is there anything else to consider when attempting to run OS/2 on the road?
- >> Are displays good enough? Does OS/2 use more battery power than DOS? Is
- >> OS/2 at all 'tuned' for portable use? Does "standby" work with OS/2?
- >> Anybody doing this already? Any comments?
- >>
- >> Thanks in advance.
- >>
- >> OS
-
- The next Service Pack (due for release in late December or early January)
- appears to have Laptop power management features built-in. An IBMer who has
- a copy of an internal beta of this posted a list of features included in the
- beta. At least two items specifically referred to Laptop use. I don't have
- the file any more, so I can't include it here.
-
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