nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) (01/17/90)
I am considering buying a laptop mainly for word processing
and light-duty computing/software development. For comparison
I have a Leading Edge Model 'D' (7.5 MHz 8088) at home which
seems entirely powerful enough for my needs.
I've looked at a number of laptops and the biggest problem
I have with most of them is the display: I find the blue
or bluish-green displays to be hard on my eyes and fatiguing
to look upon for long. Granted, these are a big improvement
over the non-supertwist LCD displays of the Tandy 100 days
with their limited viewing angle and poor contrast. But
I've also seen much better black-on-white LCD displays on the
higher-end 80286 machines. Trouble is that these machines
are bigger and heavier than what I want, much more expensive,
and really overkill for my needs.
So the question is this: Why do they bundle the nice displays
only with the heavy, expensive machines? Does anyone offer a
black-on-white display on a lighter, cheaper, lower-power
machine? If so, who? If not, why not?
---Peter
PS-- While I was looking I saw a Packard Bell 286 laptop
with a 20 Meg hard drive and the B+W display at
Lechmere's in NH (a local discount chain) for $1995.
This is about a *thousand* dollars cheaper than any
other 286 laptop I've seen locally and they said that
this was their regular price, not a closeout or promotion.
The machine looked a lot like the Sharp but the equivalent
Sharp in a nearby store was $3200. Anybody know anything
about Packard Bell, the machine or the company?
Thanks!