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From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: T1000SE and T1000XE
Keywords: Toshiba laptop, T1000SE, T1000XE, expansion
Message-ID: <6832@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 90 10:06:42 GMT
References: <1489@key.COM>
Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Organization: Univ. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
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In article <1489@key.COM> perry@arkon.key.COM (Perry The Cynic) writes:
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-Why did I switch? Mainly because I know the difference between 25ms and 94ms,
-and because 20MB online at a time beats 2MB. I am not (and never was) a
-floppy kind of person, and not having to carry around reams of floppies
-makes the box more self-contained.

	I'd love to see the actual response time of the harddisk on the
T1000XE.  I recall reading somewhere that Toshiba designed their harddisks
to spin at ~2400 rpm to conserve battery power (this is the T1600, I
believe).  
-- 
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