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From: nbladt@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Have any one seen a T5200C ?
Keywords: Toshiba T5200C, Color LCD
Message-ID: <1667@aut.autelca.ascom.ch>
Date: 28 Mar 91 14:42:06 GMT
References: <10848@bunny.GTE.COM>
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, CH-3073 Guemligen Switzerland
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sc05@gte.com (Shih-Chio Chang) writes:

>I am thinking about buying a Toshiba T5200C -- the new laptop with a color
>LCD display.  It looks impressive from the picture in its Bytes Ad.
>The problem is that nobody that I talked to has ever seen one.  I wonder
>if anybody has seen one in some trade show?  If you do, what do you think
>about its color display?  Does it give reasonably good color and contrast?
>Or should I stick with the plasma display?  Thanks for any information.
I saw the 3200C (which should have the same display than the 5200C, just
a different processor). While it looks good, I didn't see somebody working
on it with the mouse. LCD displays are too slow for using a mouse, i.e.
you have to wait about two seconds to detect the mouse on your screen.
There seems to be one exception to that rule which is the SPARC laptop
from Toshiba. Rumour has it that they did considerable work for that.

Although I like it, I would think about buying it now, twice.
	1. Other colour LCD displays are coming up, e.g., Sharp.
	2. The difference in price is far away from being almost zero !

We have a 5200 w/o the C and it works very well.

Norbert Bladt.
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