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From: seven@nuchat.UUCP (David Paulsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Nay vote for Toshiba T1000
Summary: don't forget the freebies
Keywords: warranty, Super-PC Kwik, Denney's
Message-ID: <19260@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 90 22:47:14 GMT
References: <93864@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: seven@nuchat.UUCP (David Paulsen)
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Organization: Crazy Dave's Computer Emporium, Houston
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In article <93864@linus.UUCP> blk@mbunix.mitre.org (Kahn) writes:
>
>I don't understand why this newsgroup is so infatuated with the T1000.
>Seems to me that the new Panasonic offers more for the same money,
>and the Tandy 1100FD offers a bunch more for a under $1000.
>
>Have people seen these two machines and rejected them in favor of 
>Toshiba, or are they just little known?
>--
>B<   Brian Kahn   blk@security.mitre.org   "may the farce be with you"

I have a T1000, and have been very pleased with it.  What sold me was the
bang-for-the-buck: $650 mail order (even cheaper now).  At the time I
bought it laptops started about $1100, and went up up up..

Toshiba gave me a one-year "extended care" warranty, which guaranteed
me a working computer within 48 hours of my reporting a failure.  I
would have had to send the unit at my expense, but Toshiba pays the
shipping back.. Federal Express overnight.  (Of course, I would probably
never see "my" computer again; they must have a stable of refurbished
units they recycle for the extended care program.)

The warranty is in itself pretty amazing, but something else is even
MORE amazing: Toshiba honors its warranty no matter WHO SELLS YOU THE
MACHINE.  I didn't know it at the time, but many manufacturers will
not honor their own warranty unless you buy from an official dealer.
I doubt very seriously if the folks who sold me my T1000 are "official
Toshiba dealers", but the issue never came up... and it wouldn't have
mattered anyway.

I also got Super-PC Kwik with my machine, free of charge.  This has got 
to be the nicest ramdisk/cache program available.. and retails for $79.  
You'd be surprised what a 64K disk cache can do for a slow 720K floppy;
it's almost usable!  Seriously.. it eliminated disk-thrashing entirely.
This wasn't just a dealer-bundle, since the whole manual had been rewritten
for the Toshiba computer, and the software itself won't boot on a non-
Toshiba machine.  (I had to re-buy Super PC-Kwik when I got my AT. :)

I know my T1000 is slow, and when I'm not using my $79 magnavox monitor
I get whanging headaches from squinting at the display.. but that li'l
machine has survived hurricanes and car-wrecks and careless waitresses
at Denney's and REALLY screwed up floppy disks and... and..

Anyway, I like it.

David

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