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> This is a P 133 with 32 MB RAM.  Some of the jpg's 
> (scanned ones) are turning out to be fairly large
> --between 1 and 2MB. 

You may be able to thin them down without much loss
of quality.  I use ImageMagic (mogrify) for that.

> Would you think this laptop will have the oomph to 
> handle those elegantly?

Elegantly?  Perhaps not.  However, the 32mb will help.
MagicPoint has an optional caching feature that let's
it preload pages (although I'm not sure that works with
jpegs).  If it preloads those jpegs, you might be alright.

> Guess I'll just have to get ahold of a projector and 
> do some experimentation. 

Even a normal monitor will help.  I've found that the
laptop's screen just does show the detail as well as 
an external VDU.

> magicpoint's drawing function looks like it will 
> come in really handy.

You mean the little red line that you draw with the
mouse?  I've never used that myself (yet), but it
could be useful for some presentations.

> The new BL looks really interesting.  I've fiddled 
> a bit with jwm, having bumped into it first while 
> testing out Puppy Linux. 

Yeah, they use it on Puppy.  I think one of the DSL
versions used it too.  It's a very popular wm for BSD
(or one of those other non-Linux OS). 

> It has some nice features (e.g., the xml config file) 

And that includes user-defined keyboard commands, which
should make some users happy.

> How much smaller is it than icewm, btw?

Even though the jwm features are very similar to icewm,
it is one-quarter the size.  The jwm stuff on BL3.5 will
actually take less space than the swm stuff on BL3.4.

Cheers,
Steven