Review of the Dauphin DTR-1
Original by Nick Dolezal 
The good:
    Lightweight 
    Portable 
    Runs Windows 3.1 well 
    100% PC/ISA compatible 
    Pen interface 
    Very modular 
    Very inexpensive now 
    Excellent battery life (Eight hours!) for $400 
The bad:
    Poor battery life (2.5 hours) 
    Cheap keyboard, stiff keys 
    No pen silo 
    Kinda slow (40x faster than XT (Norton SI 8.0)) 
    Limited RAM and hard drive space (42MB fixed disk) 
    Poor suspend mode (10 hours max) 
    No PCMCIA slot(s) 
    Slow internal modem 
The ugly:
    The way some colors "swim" on the monochrome LCD 
Overall:
    If you can tolerate the Dauphin's faults, it will serve you well in any 
    configuration. Add an external pocket modem and a couple spare batteries 
    ($50/ea, very small) and you have a nice handheld web browser. With any 
    computer, it is a compromise of portability, power, and price, and I am 
    pleased to say the Dauphin effectively manages all three. 


© 1996 By Toby Reed / toby@eskimo.com