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From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: March issue of PC World
Message-ID: <1088@rna.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 91 18:05:02 GMT
References: <1799@borg.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <1799@borg.cs.unc.edu> hardarso@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson) writes:
>2) Somewhere in the magazine it says:
>8086 notebooks are being phased out of production. Reflections on that?
>Does everyone want all that power? Apparently yes, it seems...

	I don't.
	I have a Toshiba T1000SE and I find it entirely adequate for what
I need, in terms of CPU power. It can even run Windows 2.x quite well.
But for a laptop, I don't really find a Windows environment very practical.
It is very difficult to use a mouse on a plane, unless you borrow your
neighbor's lap.
	What I would like to see, is T1000SE features (or perhaps with a
hard disk, T1000LE), but much lighter and thinner. The T1000SE is still a
little too much to carry comfortably everywhere. I don't want to compromise
the keyboard anymore, so the height and length will probably have to remain
in the 8x11 range. But it could be thinner (>1") and much lighter, perhaps
2 lbs.  Instead of the hard disk, the Flash EEROM would be nice.

				Cheers,
				Dan Ts'o		212-570-7671
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