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From: session@uncw.UUCP (Zack C. Sessions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: asking recommendations on laptop/notebook purchase
Keywords: laptop, notebook, purchase, advice
Message-ID: <1085@uncw.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 91 17:19:53 GMT
References: <1082@uncw.UUCP> <17561@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <3520@polari.UUCP> <17595@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina at Wilmington
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ee52ffr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Ante-Loraxis ) writes:

>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???

No, I was the guy who <implied> that the 1100FD used nicads. Now
that Lee mentioned different, I checked my manual and sure enough
it does use lead-acid batteries. The life is stated as "3.0 hours
with 10% FDD duty, 4.5 hours without useing the FDD".

>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

Aw c'mon, this is a definite advantage. I'm sure that that backlite
screen with one reason why many choose the Panasonic over the Tandy,
and now your telling them not to use it? (Simply to make the battery
last longer)

>>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.

You didn't get the point. The text editor and spelling checker are
provided FREE with the 1100FD, you don't have to pay $200 more dollars
to get something which may be better. On a single floppy drive system
it IS very convenient to be able to call up a text editor by simply
hitting a function key and not having to swap out floppies.

Plus, isn't MS-Works a Windows application?
The 1100FD simply can't handle Windows. (I may be wrong about the
MS-Works being Windows based, but seems like I read that somewhere ...)

Zack Sessions
session@uncw.UUCP