pwong@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Patrick Wong) (12/15/89)
Hi, netters: Has anyone read any review in any magazine on the upcoming new Toshiba laptop T1000SE ? How does it compare to the good old T1000 (price wise, performance-wise, features-wise) ? Any info will be appreciated ! Patrick Wong pcw@squid.graphics.cornell.edu
atk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) (12/16/89)
In article <9427@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> pwong@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Patrick Wong) writes: >Hi, netters: > >Has anyone read any review in any magazine on the upcoming new Toshiba >laptop T1000SE ? How does it compare to the good old T1000 (price wise, >performance-wise, features-wise) ? > >Any info will be appreciated ! > >Patrick Wong > >pcw@squid.graphics.cornell.edu There is a brief review in the January issue of Byte. It appears to combine the "best features" of the 1000 and 1200. It is light weight and comes with a single 1.4meg drive and Dos 3.3 in ROM. It also has a larger/backlite display. They indicate that the retail price will be around $1400. I'm hoping for 700-800 for mail order... but that might be wishful thinking... | Mail: 1830 22nd street mail: atk@boulder.colorado.edu | | Apt 16 Vmail: Home: (303) 939-8256 | | Boulder, Co 80302 Office: (303) 492-8115 | ------------------------------------------------------------------
pwong@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Patrick Wong) (12/16/89)
In article <14920@boulder.Colorado.EDU> atk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) writes: >In article <9427@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> pwong@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Patrick Wong) writes: >>Hi, netters: >> >>Has anyone read any review in any magazine on the upcoming new Toshiba >>laptop T1000SE ? How does it compare to the good old T1000 (price wise, >>performance-wise, features-wise) ? >> >>Any info will be appreciated ! >> >>Patrick Wong >> >>pcw@squid.graphics.cornell.edu > > >There is a brief review in the January issue of Byte. It appears to combine >the "best features" of the 1000 and 1200. It is light weight and comes with >a single 1.4meg drive and Dos 3.3 in ROM. It also has a larger/backlite >display. They indicate that the retail price will be around $1400. I'm hoping >for 700-800 for mail order... but that might be wishful thinking... > > >| Mail: 1830 22nd street mail: atk@boulder.colorado.edu | >| Apt 16 Vmail: Home: (303) 939-8256 | >| Boulder, Co 80302 Office: (303) 492-8115 | >------------------------------------------------------------------ At last, I have a one-sheet product preview of T1000SE from Toshiba. Here are the major differences in T1000SE compared to T1000: 1. 80C86 (9.54 Hz) 2. 1 Mb ram standard (expandable to 2 or 3 Mb, USER INSTALLABLE !!!) 3. memory above 640 Kb can be used as battery-backed ramdisk 4. 1 "1.44Mb" 3.5" drive (T1000 has 720K drive) 5. BACKLIT supertwist LCD display (T1000 does not have backlit) 6. 640x400 bit-mapped graphics (T1000 is 640x200) ^^^ 7. SELECTABLE parallel or external drive port (i.e. you can only use one thing at a time!) 8. rechargeable battery is REMOVABLE ! 9. MS-DOS 3.3 in ROM (T1000 has 2.11 in ROM) 10. expansion slot (in addition to the modem slot): "a 100-pin expansion bus connector" My comments: Note that the SE does not have external RGB monitor port, composite mono port, separate printer/external drive ports. I called the toll-free Toshiba product line to ask about the above. The rep said since the SE screen is much better than that of T1000, ext. monitor port(s) are not necessary anymore. I did ask about the mysterious 100-pin expansion bus connector (note: 100 pins are a lot of pins !). He did not have any info on it (he had seen a prototype SE once himself!). He "suspects" that through this proprietary connector, you can connect some kind of to-be-released magic box so that you may connect ext. monitor to SE through this box, and other peripherals may be connected to this box also. This list price of SE is $1699. So I guess you may be able to get it for $1100 from the retail stores. In my case, I think I am going for the good for T1000 with the 768 Kb card installed. (it is cheaper to buy this combo compared to SE based on the education discount prices in both cases). Also, SE only has 360Kb available as ramdisk (without the memory upgrade <-- too expensive for me!) while T1000 has more with the memory card and costs less ! SE and 1000 weigh about the same (SE is 0.5 lb less). Anyways... Patrick Wong pcw@squid.graphics.cornell.edu