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In article <3495@husc6.harvard.edu> kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar) writes:
>
>  I purchased a Macintosh Portable about a week ago now and I thought I'd
>give some non-technical opinions on it.
>
>1) The case is, in general, nice. It looks good, carries well, and holds
>   the portable. Unfortunately, I have a number of problems with it.
>
>   a) It's designed like an old typewriter case: the majority of the case
>      hinges up. When you have the portable in your arms it's difficult
>      to get the case to lie flat to put the portable in it. This design
>      would make sense if it allowed you access to the ports on the back
>      but it doesn't: you have to take the machine out of the case to
>      connect anything to it.

If you think it is hard to get the case to lay flat, put a spare battery in
the top compartment, then it is REALLY hard.  A good way to get around this 
is to insert and remove the portable from it's case while the case is 
standing up.  I simply sit the case down on it's feet, unzip the zippers
most of the way down the sides, and pull the machine up and out.  To put
it back, just do the reverse.  Since the case is quite flexable, this 
works quite well.

> 5) I adapted to the track ball quite rapidly. I would not want to do any
>    drawing with it, but for day to day tasks its fine.

It is actually not bad for drawing either.  I've only used my mouse once, 
and that was just to make sure it worked.

>  That's about it for the moment. I'm very pleased with the machine. I'm
>not sure I would have bought it without the academic discount, but for
>$5200 it's definitely worth it to me.

My feelings exactly.
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Scott Sutherland	sas@cis.ohio-state.edu
Staff Software Developer
The Ohio State University, Department of Dance
My opinions, not OSU's