A6014LHG@HASARA11.BITNET (Leo Geesink) (12/04/90)
I am interested in buying a T-1000 LE. Does anybody has any experiences with this laptop? Is the screen as good as Toshiba claims? I mean: good enough to use for a few hours continously? Thanks in advance Leo Leo Geesink | bitnet : A6014LHG@HASARA11 University of Amsterdam | internet: GEESINK@SARA.NL Dept. of Information Systems
shannon@luap.cs.indiana.edu (Greg Shannon) (12/04/90)
I have a T1000SE, and the screen is just fine for long sessions as long as the surrounding light isn't too bright. I tried working on it in the car on a sunny day with no luck, but I suspect that that's true of most any screen. It's very easy to use when it's completely dark, if you're a good touch typer. Greg Shannon Indiana University
portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) (12/05/90)
>>>>> On 3 Dec 90 18:27:53 GMT, A6014LHG@HASARA11.BITNET (Leo Geesink) said: > I am interested in buying a T-1000 LE. Does anybody has any experiences > with this laptop? I don't have experience with the T1000LE, but I do own a T1000XE, which is essentially the same machine minus the internal floppy drive. The only negative thing I can say about it is that the processor is only an 8086. If you don't need heavy-duty computing power on the go, the T1000SE/XE/LE is an excellent choice. > Is the screen as good as Toshiba claims? I mean: good > enough to use for a few hours continously? Yes. The screen is one of the machine's best features. It's clear, crisp, high contrast, and you can choose either a thin or bold font for the text. There is also a special 640x400 monochrome graphics mode which supports AT&T 6300 monochrome graphics, and the display has perfectly square pixels. m. -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com "It is amazing how a weekend at a hotel or motel--or even a camping weekend without the children--can make a wife feel like a mistress and a husband treat her that way." --Nina Fischer, "How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead" part of the Amy Vanderbilt Success Program for Women
taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (12/07/90)
Leo Geesink asks: > I am interested in buying a T-1000 LE. Does anybody has any experiences > with this laptop? I got mine today, actually! I had a 1000SE for about five months and really liked it a lot. I added a 2MB RAM card (for a total of 3MB, 2.3 of which I used as a RAM disk) and a 2400 baud internal modem (which was a bit iffy; since it doesn't recognize the Toshiba Modem Power Off option setting, it caused my battery to drain to dead faster than I would have liked). The 1000LE is all that the SE was plus a 20MB hard disk. In addition, there is now a slot for a second battery card (on the left side, under where the screen rests) which gives a total theoretical battery life of just over five hours (rather than the three hours on the big main battery on the back, which was all the SE and XE had too). The screen, as Michael Portuesi has reported, is indeed terrific. I have used my SE as a portable word processing system at hotels throughout the United States without any difficulty at all. Further, since my demands are quite low (MKS "vi" is mostly what I use now, actually, of all things!) the power of the 80C86 chip is quite sufficient for my needs. I strongly recommend the Toshiba 1000 line and find no drawbacks at all with the product, especially as mine is sufficiently rugged that it has survived quite a bit of travelling, including being shoved under seats in airplanes innumerable times. [one of the problems I forsee with lots of the new 286/386 laptops from these random third party places is that they're just not rugged enough to survive the bashing that they get out in the real world. If you use it as a travel computer as I do, then you might well want to be rather harsh on your strength criteria; check out how solid the screen shell is, how firmly attached to the main unit it is, how well the periphs stay in, whether it can be jarred, dropped, etc. etc. Just don't break it at the store and blame me! :-) ] -- Dave Taylor Intuitive Systems Mountain View, California taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor
kroe@sbgrad2.cs.sunysb.edu (KiYun Roe) (12/08/90)
In article <PORTUESI.90Dec5105152@tweezers.esd.sgi.com> portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: >I don't have experience with the T1000LE, but I do own a T1000XE, >which is essentially the same machine minus the internal floppy drive. > >> Is the screen as good as Toshiba claims? I mean: good >> enough to use for a few hours continously? > >Yes. The screen is one of the machine's best features. It's clear, >crisp, high contrast, and you can choose either a thin or bold font >for the text. Since Michael doesn't own a T1000LE, I assume he's praising the screen on the T1000XE. Well, what he said about the XE screen goes double for the LE screen. The 1000LE has the same sidelit screen that the 1200XE has, and it's even brighter and clearer than the SE/XE screen. You should experience no difficulty using it for a few hours continously. -- KiYun Roe kroe@sbcs.sunysb.edu Department of Computer Science SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400 (516) 632-7675