There was only one way to settle the ensuing conflict - a direct trip to the cockpit for no less than the Captain's arbitration. Hauling through business and first class, your correspondent was struck by just how many other Warrior's were hard at work behind the ghostly glow of a notebook in the middle of the night. Had power been forthcoming, your correspondent would have worked on a conference presentation, not in the formerly de rigeur PowerPoint format but in HTML, the language of the Internet's World Wide Web, which seems increasingly common for overhead slide shows delivered to conferences via a browser such as Netscape. Included is an infra-red remote control called a 'Mind Path' with 22 special effects such as zoom, magnify and spotlight. But using the 755CV can be a rough ride.
Presenters know that they invariably get very little time to set up.
Even in optimal circumstances it is quite an art to manipulate the inevitably tangled black straps which secure the computer on the horizontal screen of the projector. Clearly the 755CV's manual, with its special tips for coping with unstable projector stands and potential screen scratches, was written by seasoned users. Chilling pictures of the 755CV crashing to the floor or having its back hit and smashed by the overhead projector itself, punctuate more than one page. Still, at least in more leisurely circumstances and for small to medium-sized conference rooms, I can report the 755CV's images are crisp and impressive. Jason Romney is a solicitor and information systems consultant at Price Brent's Information Media and Communication Group.