hadden@SRC.Honeywell.COM (George D. Hadden) (05/27/91)
i've just scanned the last thousand or so messages here. i've also watched byte and pc mag (or whatever it's called). i have not yet seen a review of the packard bell 286 notebook. i find this quite odd, since it seems to win big over most of what's out there. here's the deal: - cheap -- i paid $1665 at our local best buy - weighs about 6 lbs - 286, backlit vga - external ports: vga monitor, keyboard (i'm using both of these even as we speak), mouse, parallel, serial (well, i guess i'm using this, too), bus - expandable to 8mb (!) -- i just installed my 4mb upgrade to give me a total of 5! - 8.5x11x2 -- true notebook - batteries are replacable by radio shack heavy duty nicad d cells -- this works great! - 20mb hd expandable to 40mb, 1 - 1.44 floppy drive - battery life about 3+ hours (less with the radio shack -- they're 4.0 amp-hours as opposed to the 5 amp-hours of the original) i'm probably forgeting features, here, but doesn't this strike YOU as a featurefull system? i'm interested in other's opinions. -geo --- George D. Hadden, Honeywell Systems and Research Center Where "Research" is our middle name! PHONE: (612)782-7769 ARPA: hadden@src.honeywell.com MAIL: 3660 Technology Drive MN65-2100, Minneapolis, MN 55418 UUCP: {umn-cs, ems, bthpyd}!srcsip!hadden