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Subject: Re: asking recommendations on laptop/notebook purchase
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Date: 18 Mar 91 03:20:55 GMT
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In article <3520@polari.UUCP> lsh@polari.UUCP (Lee Hauser) writes:
>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.
      
Aren't you the guy who told us 1100FD uses nicad battery???

>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.

1. You can turn off the backlit in Panasonic to get 3 hour of
battery time.  Saying Tandy has longer battery life is non-sense
2. Unless you have clear evidence, do not speculate any prediction
on dicontinuation of a product.  Any product can be discontinued any
time.  But the Panasonic is still selling on major mail orders.
Are you running some promotion for Tandy?

>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!

For two hundred dollars of saving, you can buy far better software
like MS-Works.  IMHO,there is really not much reason to get Tandy
over Panasonic unless you like to pay extra for convenient Tandy
service.

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