Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 06:03:15 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Optiview Film, etc.
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I just installed the anti-reflective film on my L100 LCD - it's fantastic!
Installtion went pretty well, just one or two very small flaws. The effect is
striking. I temporarily attached a small (1" x 2") piece to gauge the effect,
and as per Rayond's photos, color saturation is improved, brightness is
greatly improved, contrast is better, and the viewability in brightish light is
markedly better. We will be using the L100 as a GPS machine (among other things)
in a campervan in Europe through June, and my wife/navigator is thrilled with
the improvement.
Wow... great! Another confirmation of what David's been telling us for quite so time now. I'm heading out for a cross-country pretty soon. I hope I'll find time to do the modification myself before I take off... ah procrastination... ;-p
With the LCD mask off, I replaced a broken latch. Kind of a crude
arrangement, and not easily done. Of course, the right one was broken, which is buried
in curcuitry - delicacy required.
I was wondering about that process myself Lee. I've been inside the masks on all 3 Librettos to do various fixes... and never really figured out how those darned latches would come apart and re-install if I ever needed to do it. So it was a bit tricky eh?
With a new keyboard and a 40GB Travelstar (my three have been bulletproof, Matt), my L100 is reborn!
Well... I confess that 2 of the 4 IBM drives I've had problems with were the same Deskstar 80M (M??) series drives. The original failed after classic, relentless clicking sounds. IBM warranties there drives for 3 years, which is great. But the replacement they sent me also failed within a few weeks. After asking how I'd know the next replacement wouldn't see the same fate, they sent the next replacement to their testing division to confirm it would be problem free before forwarding it to me. But after only a few hours of use, it lets out a short little eeeerrrrrrrk every once in a while that I've never heard any drive do. Signs of yet another failing drive, or an eccentricity of this particular drive? Nice thing was that they don't have any 46GB Deskstars anymore, so they had to replace it with a newer 80GB model. Nice.... >if< it keeps working.
On a related topic... their tech people tell me that the newer drives >are< in fact quite a bit less stable, and more sensitive to vibration and bumping around that older drives. That because of the increasing miniaturization of the bits inside these days. I wonder about my 40GB Hitachi/IBM Travelstar, and the newer 80GB+ models.
Matt
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