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- From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o)
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- Subject: Recs for pocket/sub-notebook PCs...
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- Date: 29 Aug 1992 17:16:57 GMT
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- What are peoples recommendations and experiences with sub-notebook
- PC's ? I know of 3 that seem the most interesting (rejecting the Poqet --
- too small keyboard, the HP -- too small keyboard and display and the Atari):
- Gateway Handbook
- Zeos Pocket PC
- Dell 3.5lb 386 (forgot model name)
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- Any others to consider ?
- I would like it to be very light (1 lb is great, I currently use a
- T1000SE and 6-7lbs is too heavy), have a typeable keyboard, decent battery life
- (> 3 hours), a least 2Mb disk-like R/W storage, modem. Window compatibility
- would be a plus.
- Comparisons and experiences ? Anybody try the Dell ? How useable is
- the display since it isn't backlight ? The Zeos ?
- Although I'm sure that is what it costs, the Gateway at $1300 seems
- a little pricey for what it is. By the time you add $300 for their floppy
- and consider that, as is, it can't run Windows well, the Dell for $500 more
- looks better, with 386 and VGA display. Zeos, at $600 sounds cheap, but has
- no harddisk, and they want $450 for a 2Mb memory to emulate a disk, so that
- is $1050, pretty close to the Gateway, which has a decent hard disk, is
- backlite, better display and much faster CPU.
- Comments and recs ? Please email responses, thanks.
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- Cheers,
- Dan Ts'o 212-327-7671
- Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu
- Rockefeller Univ. ...s5!rna!dan
- 1230 York Ave. tso@rockvax.bitnet
- NY, NY 10021
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