"Joerg" wrote in message
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I don't agree with Steve there. In the early 90's I regularly carried my
trusty old Compaq Contura 410 on longhaul flights.

....and I bet your 50MHz 486SX2 seemed just as fast with the software you were
using at the time as your 1.6GHz netbook does now? ;-)

And I sure was glad it allowed up to 6 hours on a battery charge. Did a lot
of schematics, module specs and so on. Seen many business execs with their
high faluting IBM laptops fold'em because their batteries were at zilch,
grumpily watching me plugging along until 2nd mealtime.

Some of them might have considered the shorter battery life a *feature*, you
know. "Well, I did what I could on the annual report until the battery died,
at which point I decided to see how good the stewardesses were at making
martinis!"

---Joel