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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Info on T-1000 LE
Message-ID: <1528@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 7 Dec 90 01:06:42 GMT
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Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +1 (415) 966-1151
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Leo Geesink asks:

> I am interested in buying a T-1000 LE. Does anybody has any experiences
> with this laptop?

I got mine today, actually!  I had a 1000SE for about five months and
really liked it a lot.  I added a 2MB RAM card (for a total of 3MB, 2.3
of which I used as a RAM disk) and a 2400 baud internal modem (which
was a bit iffy; since it doesn't recognize the Toshiba Modem Power Off
option setting, it caused my battery to drain to dead faster than I 
would have liked).

The 1000LE is all that the SE was plus a 20MB hard disk.  In addition,
there is now a slot for a second battery card (on the left side, under
where the screen rests) which gives a total theoretical battery life 
of just over five hours (rather than the three hours on the big main
battery on the back, which was all the SE and XE had too).  

The screen, as Michael Portuesi has reported, is indeed terrific.  I
have used my SE as a portable word processing system at hotels throughout
the United States without any difficulty at all.  Further, since my 
demands are quite low (MKS "vi" is mostly what I use now, actually, of
all things!) the power of the 80C86 chip is quite sufficient for my 
needs.  

I strongly recommend the Toshiba 1000 line and find no drawbacks at all
with the product, especially as mine is sufficiently rugged that it has
survived quite a bit of travelling, including being shoved under seats
in airplanes innumerable times. 

[one of the problems I forsee with lots of the new 286/386 laptops from
 these random third party places is that they're just not rugged enough
 to survive the bashing that they get out in the real world.  If you use
 it as a travel computer as I do, then you might well want to be rather
 harsh on your strength criteria; check out how solid the screen shell
 is, how firmly attached to the main unit it is, how well the periphs
 stay in, whether it can be jarred, dropped, etc. etc.  Just don't break
 it at the store and blame me! :-) ]
						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

taylor@limbo.intuitive.com    or   {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor