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Article #1853Re: PC laptop advice requested
From: Andrew Klossner
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:01
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:01
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"I've heard that the Toshiba 4400 is a good system--what is
comparable to this?"
"There really is nothing comparable to this!"
I agree -- is you can afford it, this is the machine to get in today's
market. The active matrix color display is a big win, as are the
nickel hydride battery and Toshiba's outstanding factory service. The
fact that this manufacturer will be around next year is no small
consideration either.
One small but very important characteristic of this machine for me is
that the CONTROL key is placed where God and Teletype intended it, to
the left of the A key. (I know about key-remap TSRs, but they seem to
fall apart under take-the-machine programs like Windows.)
The only things I would wish of a notebook that Toshiba doesn't offer
is some sort of integral pointing device (trackball, J key, whatever),
and an option to use flash RAM for secondary storage instead of a hard
disk. Rumor has it that the latter will be introduced by some
manufacturers at COMDEX.
-=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
(uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!shaman!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: PC laptop advice requested Message-ID: <1797@shaman.wv.tek.com> Date: 15 Sep 92 23:01:17 GMT References: <1992Sep15.044407.10739@leland.Stanford.EDU> <pst3gog@zuni.esd.sgi.com> Sender: nobody@shaman.wv.tek.com Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 26