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- From: HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky)
- Subject: CPUseless???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.081757.7231@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:17:57 GMT
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- I am currently writing this on a Powerbook 170 with a 120 meg drive
- and a Global Village Powerport modem (used to connect to the
- Stanford mainframe).
-
- According to CPU (Connectix Powerbook Utilities), I have 22 minutes
- of battery left. The only problem is that I've had 22 minutes of
- battery left for about half an hour. Since then I've run an
- Autodobuler scan and a full Disinfectant run. No problems, no
- battery reduction either.
-
- I got CPU from a friend (not pirated, he gave me the whole package)
- and am glad I didn't buy it. It is nice to be able to customize some
- settings but the whole thing seems awfully cumbersome and -- more
- importantly -- utterly useless.
-
- It's clock is too far over to the left to appear in almost any
- application (while SuperClock did just fine before) and you can't
- use it with SuperClock because it pushes SC even farther left.
-
- This does not leave me impressed. Nor do the additional crashes I've
- experienced since installing CPU. Maybe next time? Maybe GUM? Who
- knows but the guy who gave me CPU did it the same day he lunched
- with Guy (as in Kawasaki, as is Guy's Utilities for Macintosh).
-
- More posting to follow as I continue my real-life CPU test. Also
- more details on why I don't like the user interface of it.
-
- Mark Rogowsky
- rogo@forsythe.stanford.edu
-