From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 18:53:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA01409 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01393 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA06089; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:45:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604300145.SAA06089@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Laptops and removable drives To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:45:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, david@fgate.flevel.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org, graham@flevel.co.uk In-Reply-To: <199604300001.JAA17499@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 30, 96 09:31:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > That really depends on your budget &c. The Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CS > > > is a pretty good buy, and the new Sharp PC9000 looks good too. Both of > > > these will set you back around $6K (australian) for a usable configuration. > > > > > > The biggest drawback with laptops is the displays - only the latest and > > > most expensive have 1027x768; you're looking at over $8K to put one on > > > the road. > > > > $8k US or $8k OZ? > > $8K Australian. Having quoted one price in AUS$, why would I change? Because you did AUS$ to US$ conversions right before, so if you left your BC in the same monetary base, it would have been US$. 8-). US$ are more... given the exchange ratio, it means a US person can get 1024x768 for ~$6000 US. > > *WHO* has 1024x768 (besides the Tadpole SPARCBook)? > > The new Toshiba Tecra 7xx series, the Sharp PC9070 (think that's the > right number), the old Tadpole Pentium system just to name three. > Acme Portables have a luggable with a 10x7 display due in a month or > two as well. -- I went looking on the web, and couldn't find better than 800x600 on the Tecra -- admittedly, Toshiba's WWW page is broken. -- I couldn't find Sharp at all. I found some reviews about them putting out some bad products ("sharp computer" in a Yahoo search). -- It looks like Tadpole is no longer selling 1024x768? All they had listed was 800x600. I saw the luggables, but I doubt you could use them on a plane... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.