AMS Tech TravelPro 256CXA

This page only has information specific to this laptop. If you haven't come from there, and before Emailing me, please look at the main page for more info and specs.

Don't Email me to ask me where you can get support for AMS tech laptops, I returned mine in November 1998 because it overheated. However, you can find some information and tips here

This is a special edition of the Travelpro 25xx series.

Good things:

Ability to display the battery charge as a percentage on screen, independently from the OS. This is a very nice feature that I haven't seen elsewhere yet.
Enhanced battery saving system.
CD and floppy are in one module that fits in a bay. You can swap them for a zip drive or something similar.
APM fully works under linux
Support for both saving to RAM and saving to disk with two different keys (meaning you choose at run time, it's not a setting in the bios that's either one or the other)

Bad things:

A few glitches with PCMCIA as explained on the main page
The sound volume is not a rolling button, it's a function key combinaison
The keyboard layout is really bad. Because of the layout and the stupid windows keys, the space bad is way too small, and backspace is so small that I kept hitting the key next to it.
This is by far the worst: the fan blows under the laptop, so if you set it anywhere (especially your lap, a couch or a bed), it will overheat and crash very quickly. Since the fan comes with the CPU module, it is possible that other TravelPros don't have this problem, but in any case I do not recommend buying this laptop just because of this.

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Last updated on December 14th 1998. V 1.0