Hi:

I purchased the extended battery for my Z50.

Yesterday, I used it from about 10am till 7pm - 9 hours straight. This is 
pretty good, considering that the LCD never dims (like in CE) nor does it 
turn off.

Now, I didn't have a lot of net access that day, but I am using a 320M CF 
card for netbsd, and the Socket LPE ethenet card in a pcmcia jacket for net 
access at work. (I can't get the magic to make the Aironet 4800 associated 
on our closed network here-- at home the wirless works fine).

So, 9 hours is pretty cool. Get the extended battery. Its not that much 
bigger and give a big boost. In fact, I don't even bring the power cord 
into work, I just charge it up overnight.

Blackbox is amazingly fast on this thing -- i've had pentiums that weren't 
this fast (although they had linux on them). And I can live with the 
640x480.

Although, the Mobilepro 800 looks killer, esp if the usb mouse really works 
like the hpcmips pages claims.


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IMHO what's left to really make this absolutely killer:

- get the lcd screen to blank when I close it
- emulate 3 buttons with the TP
- get 1 gig CF cards down to ~$300 (not microdrives)


-andy




--On Friday, January 04, 2002 3:45 PM -0600 John Utz <john@utzweb.net> 
wrote:

> how much screen realestate are you guys getting?
>
> howlong on the battery?
>
> i was pokin' about on ebay and these(z50's) are pretty cheap, so these
> glowing reports of success make one ponder.....
>
> i have a small hp800ct x86 laptop that i like but i am getting ~2hours of
> battery life, which is suboptimal :-)
>
> also, fwiw, i have been running a mousefree WM called ion on the hp and
> have found it to be very useful. you might give it a whirl
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Andrew Diller wrote:
>
>> Well, thanks for the many replies on getting X working as a non-root
>> user. It seems that how you start X has something to do with it, as well
>> as the perm on /dev/ttyE0.
>>
>>
>> Now -- one last thing: how can you emulate the 3rd mouse button in X?
>>
>> Blackbox really needs that 3rd button, and I would like to cut and paste.
>> Anyone know a good way?
>>
>>
>> Lastly, I'm amazed at Greg's Aug 17 TP kernel. It works amazingly well on
>> my z50 with 1.5.2. I'm even pulling down a large package (mozilla) and
>> sshing into the z50 and the cursor behaves very well except during high
>> network activity. The disk writes don't seem to bother it.
>>
>> Now I just need to be able to use the two buttons on the z50 as a chorded
>> middle button and I'm ready to really use this.
>>
>> -andy diller
>>
>
> --
>
> John L. Utz III
> john@utzweb.net
>
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