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From: a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Advice sought for a laptop companion to a Mac II
Message-ID: <2736@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 90 19:55:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> GFX@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> 
> I have a IIci to handle most of my work and would like to acquire a *small*
> laptop to handle memos and letters while I commute, and log-on and check my
> e-mail when I travel.  Important features would include a good
> display/keyboard good autonomy; light and thin; maybe a hard drive...

I don't know anything about the Toshiba 100HD, but I just bought a Toshiba
T1000XE.  It's one of the smallest (12.2 x 10 x 1.7) and lightest (5.9 lbs)
hard drive portables on the market.  The keyboard is quite good (except for the
caps lock key, which is rather difficult to hit from a normal typing position
:-( ), the display is *very* nice (640 x 400, beautiful shade of blue) and the
machine is about as fast as an 8086 gets (about 250% of "original" PC speed).
The hard drive, because it is so small I guess (and because of the 16 bit bus)
is also quite zippy: 18 ms, 400 KB/sec.  I fell in lust with it as soon as I
saw it, and after a long weekend of very heavy use, I still have no complaints.

        -cjs    ( Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP )