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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Sony Z600-HEK - un-recommendation
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In-Reply-To: Wayne Pascoe's message of 08 May 2001 10:19:51 +0100
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> This is just a quick e-mail to let everyone know my experiences with
> my Sony Z600-HEK. 

I'm sending this from a Z600-TEK which is similar.  I've been very
pleased with it.

> 1. Screen brightess - Only works under windows. When you press fn-5,
> it pops up a brightness control in the center of the screen, and you
> use the jog dial to adjust it.

True, but I think that might get fixed sometime.  Someone already
did a driver for the jog dial in -current, and I believe various
other functions are on the same chip.

> 2. Suspend - same thing

Suspend to disk, yes.  Zzz works fine.

> 3. LCD / Monitor selection - same thing.

True again, but you can use an external monitor by having it connected
when you boot, which is fine for my needs.

Another flaw is the Windows-only modem.

Several things surprised me by just working - X, USB mouse, the USB
floppy (looks like a SCSI disk) and a wireless ethernet PC card.

I'd like to be able to disable the touch pad when I have a mouse
attached - anyone know how to do that?

-- Richard

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