Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!pwhite
From: pwhite@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Patricia White)
Subject: Re: AT&T Safari
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.044326.8755@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Columbia University User Services
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 04:43:26 GMT


Sorry...  I forgot to say the price of the Safari is close to that of
the IBM laptop -- it's around $5500 list.  In real dollars, that's
$3900.  I called some place in NJ that had advertised in the Science
Times of the Tuesday NY Times.

AT&T does servicing on the machine but if you go to a good dealer,
they'll try to take care of things (whatever that means).

I know the price is around $1K too high but I've gotten to the point
where I think it'll be worth paying that money for a good keyboard and
screen (the machine will be used for wordprocessing 85% of the time,
games 10%, and [hopefully] checking email for the remaining 5%) since
it'll be in use many hours per day.  I've played with the Zeos for a
few days and the IBM laptop for 1 full day.  I wasn't happy with the
keyboard of the first (and a 20 MB drive is just too small -- at the
time, that was all they had) and there was an intermittent screen
problem on the IBM.  Has anybody playtested the AT&T for a day or so?
Is it worth the extra money?


-Patricia White                                       
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EMAIL:  pwhite@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu |   "It only takes 20 years for a 
USNAIL: 418 Schapiro Hall             |   liberal to become a conservative
        Columbia University           |   without changing a single idea."
        New York, N.Y. 10027          |              --Robert Anton Wilson
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CC92