|font:Courier New||B:0|The AT&T Globalyst 130 is average. Competitively priced with adequate power and capacity, it neither excels in any particular category nor does it have any glaring flaws. Among its advantages are 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, toll-free technical support. It also comes loaded with a long list of software programs, including all you need to hook up to America Online, CompuServe, GEnie, and Prodigy.|CR||B:1|1/4^|font:Courier New||B:0|Its 6.5-pound weight with the AC adapter is below average for this group, and it is one of the smallest units as well. Also, the Globalyst comes with the best-looking carrying case of the bunch, and remember, image can be everything in college life.|CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||B:1|2/4^|font:Courier New||B:O|One of the biggest downsides of this system is that no floppy disks for DOS or Windows, which are preinstalled on the hard drive, are included. This means that you must either make your own backups from the hard disk or ask AT&T to send the disks, which it will do for free. Another problem is that the machine had the shortest battery life of all in our tests.|CR||CR||CR||B:1|3/4^|font:Courier New||B:0|The keyboard is an average, squeezed layout with an F-Shift key combination required for some functions. The notebook has a built-in trackball, which I found to have a grainy feel--it didn't roll as smoothly as some others. It provided adequate mouse control, however, so the problem is more aesthetic than practical.|CR||CR||CR||CR||B:1|4/4^|font:Courier New||B:0|* 486DX4-75 CPU|CR|* 4MB of RAM expandable to 20MB|CR|* Manufacturer's expected battery life of|CR| 3 hours|CR|* Preloaded with lots of software|CR|* 10.4-inch dual-scan LCD display|CR|* PCMCIA Type I, II, and III|CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||CR|
