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From: lsh@polari.UUCP (Lee Hauser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: asking recommendations on laptop/notebook purchase
Keywords: laptop, notebook, purchase, advice
Message-ID: <3520@polari.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 91 07:42:41 GMT
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In article <17561@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ayeh@sdcc13.ucsd.edu ({{{= Achilles =}}}) writes:
>CF-150B uses lead acid battery instead of nicad
>which has less problem with "memory" on the battery level.(correct
>me if I am wrong, but I read this from PC-laptop magazine).  The
>CF-150B has backlighting which Tandy doesn't have.  u can

A couple of corrections are in order.  The Tandy 1100FD does use the lead acid
batteries, which do not have any memory problems but are a bit heavier than
nicads,take longer to charge from complete discharge (about 10 hours) and are
MUCH cheaper.  I have three batteries for my 1100FD, they cost $30 each.
The other difference that you didn't mention was that the Panasonic can take
an additional 1 meg of RAM that the Tandy can't.  I've also heard two other
things: first, that the Panasonic has expected battery life of only an hour or
two (thanks in part to that backlit screen) while I know the Tandy batteries 
will last about three hours; second, the Panasonic may be soon discontinued.
Finally, the Tandy has DeskMate built in to ROM (both have DOS in ROM); I'm
certainly no deskmate fan, but the Text application and a spell-checker are
there too -- nice to have a text editor there all the time!


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