I don't they sit and collect dust in my collection along with my nec 3125
and gridpad
They are just too heavy and slow to be usefull for anything.
If you spend any time using the backlight, and the display is abysmal
without it the battery life just drops like a stone.
The Newton is a much superior platform, and the HWR is 1000% better then the
windows for pen.
As always YMMV
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter O'Keefe <pokeefe1@ic3.ithaca.edu>
To: <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:15 AM
Subject: NTLK Re: newtontalk V1 #227
> At 12:12 AM 01/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >I have 2 of these, on a really good run you might get 90 minutes on
battery
> >power, they are heavy and take forever to boot.. Since the drive is a
type
> >III pcmcia drive they aren't cheap to upgrade either. BTW the handwriting
to
> >text absolutley sucks, slow and maybe 70% accurate on a good day.
> >
> >Kate
> See, HWR doesn't work for me at all on the newton. And I bought 4 NiMH
> Smart batteries for it so that battery life wont be big deal. IBM states
> that with the NiMH battery in it, it will last for 2 - 3 hours. Tell me
how
> you use yours.
>
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