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#Toshiba 4900

    12-Dec-94 17:06:07
Sb: #141405-#Toshiba 4900
Fm: Mike Kelley 71302,73
To: Nik Grant [adesk] 70421,76
Yeah, it kind of scared me. I'm going to buy this Toshiba mail order, and after I spend 9K I don't want to find out it won't run 3DS — I'm not sure they'll let me return it on that basis. I'm still not sure about the screen drivers, though I suspect I can always emulate straight VESA. I do know that I was never able to get my Compaq portable to work exactly right with the Vibrant drivers — everytime I tried the "h" key it would lock the machine up and go crazy (worked fine otherwise, but I'd prefer that my new laptop work perfectly — after all, it will be more powerful than my desktop machine!). Quite honestly, I do understand why you guys are dongleprone, but it sure makes it a pain in the ass to run it on a laptop (the damn dongle always poked me in the stomach!). I suppose you guys wouldn't want to consider a PCMCIA dongle card? After all, with laptops becoming the computer of choice ('95 supposed to be almost 50% of all corporate buyers purchases — Pentium and full color screens will become standard) it would be nice if 3DS could run self-contained. Hey, I'd pay $300 more to trade in my dongle for such a card!