Xref: utzoo comp.sys.laptops:43 comp.sys.zenith:90 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!maccs!riehm From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.zenith Subject: Re: zenith 386 laptop closeout - is it a good deal? Message-ID: <25B089D6.12329@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 14 Jan 90 14:16:54 GMT References: <1990Jan11.004443.8795@chinet.chi.il.us> <7946@nigel.udel.EDU> <30731@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 12 In article <30731@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> alex@cs.ucla.edu (Alex Quilici) writes: >Has anyone else had problems with Zenith? Especially with >their 286 supersports? The shop I've been taking it to has >seven other supersport 286's with the same set of problems, >so I imagine there must be others out there in the same boat. > >Alex Another opinion: I have been using a Zenith Z-183 laptop for two and a half yeears. It runs every day in my office for 8 hours, and it has done so without a hitch. More than once I have given it a severe jolt, but no problems have developed. I also know several people with 286 Supersports, and they have had no trouble at all. Carl Riehm.