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- From: rrempel@selkirk.sfu.ca (Rod Rempel)
- Subject: Re: ThinkPad 700 - no summary :-(
- Message-ID: <rrempel.724656676@sfu.ca>
- Keywords: thinkpad,ibm,notebook,486
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:31:16 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- melissa@romulus (Melissa Woo) writes:
-
- >My apologies to all the people who have mailed me about any info I might
- >receive on the IBM ThinkPad 700/700C.
-
- >The only info I got at all was from a nice gentleman who owns another of
- >the IBM laptops, and commented that the keyboard was great, and that he
- >is happy with his machine.
-
- >I'm not sure, but the lack of responses may be due to production or
- >shipping delays with the ThinkPad. One of the network people over here
- >told me that she ordered her Thinkpad back in October, and still has not
- >received it.
-
- Yeah... here in Canada the color beasts theoretically sell for 4995 -
- basically the same price once to tack on the exchange ...
-
- I don't honestly believe that IBM wants to sell any of them though. While
- they may be the best color laptop available today, IBM seems to be doing
- their best to hide the fact:
-
- We had our local computer fair a month or so back. Apple brought their
- new stuff, Next ditto, Zenith ditto ... and so on. IBM sent a co-op kid
- with one of the portable printers (a nice relabling of some other company's
- product ...) and some photocopies of the brochures for the 700 series -
- not even the glossy brochures themselves.
-
- I made an appointment a week later to go and try the only demo version
- (or so I was told) for British Columbia, drove downtown to the IBM tower
- (in Vancouver), and was allowed to play with the 700C. It was running
- OS2, despite having only 4 Meg of memory. Again I had to conclude that
- IBM was doing its best to make the 700C as unappealing as possible.
-
- After talking to the university computer store I found out that I could
- get the same price at any other IBM dealer because of the new pricing
- policy (the same pricing policy that will keep the university store from
- ever getting a demo unit in, by the way...). I looked in the telephone book
- and finally had to call the 800 number to ask where my "local dealer" is.
- After an embarassed pause the operator had to tell me that there are no
- authorized ThinkPad dealer in the Greater Vancouver area (population
- pushing 2 million, including two universities...).
-
- I'm standing here, with $5000 I want to give to a company for their
- product, and they seem to be doing their best to avoid taking it?!!?
-
- Reached a point where I will wait for something else ... too bad, I really
- like the little pointer-thing in the keyboard. Not enough to put up with
- any more IBM s#%t though...
-
- Rod Rempel
- Department of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University
- ... if two million people do a stupid thing it's still a stupid thing.
-
- >--
- >Melissa Woo
- >melissa@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu <---- use this address if replying --
- >Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics the one in the poster is broken
- >Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign :-(
-