Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:45:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, david@fgate.flevel.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org, graham@flevel.co.uk Subject: Re: Laptops and removable drives Message-ID: <199604300145.SAA06089@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604300001.JAA17499@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 30, 96 09:31:27 am
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> > > That really depends on your budget &c. The Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CS
> > > is a pretty good buy, and the new Sharp PC9000 looks good too. Both of
> > > these will set you back around $6K (australian) for a usable configuration.
> > >
> > > The biggest drawback with laptops is the displays - only the latest and
> > > most expensive have 1027x768; you're looking at over $8K to put one on
> > > the road.
> >
> > $8k US or $8k OZ?
>
> $8K Australian. Having quoted one price in AUS$, why would I change?
Because you did AUS$ to US$ conversions right before, so if you left
your BC in the same monetary base, it would have been US$. 8-).
US$ are more... given the exchange ratio, it means a US person can
get 1024x768 for ~$6000 US.
> > *WHO* has 1024x768 (besides the Tadpole SPARCBook)?
>
> The new Toshiba Tecra 7xx series, the Sharp PC9070 (think that's the
> right number), the old Tadpole Pentium system just to name three.
> Acme Portables have a luggable with a 10x7 display due in a month or
> two as well.
-- I went looking on the web, and couldn't find better than 800x600
on the Tecra -- admittedly, Toshiba's WWW page is broken.
-- I couldn't find Sharp at all. I found some reviews about them
putting out some bad products ("sharp computer" in a Yahoo search).
-- It looks like Tadpole is no longer selling 1024x768? All they had
listed was 800x600.
I saw the luggables, but I doubt you could use them on a plane...
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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