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- From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 Handbook Information
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 21:12:52 GMT
- Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,Tx
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- In article <69556@cup.portal.com> Alex_-_Hwang@cup.portal.com writes:
- )You are better off waiting for the "palmtop orgy" to finish at the COMDEX
- )show. C&T 8680 is capable running at 14MHz. Gateway is short changing
- )people by offering 8MHz system. The battery life is as short, if not worse,
- )than the new notebooks or 386 SL subnotebooks. And for $1295, you can
- )almost afford a 386 notebook.
- )
- )Alex Hwang
- )ps: I am definitly biased; my company builds and sells 8680 based palmtops.
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- Fine. Could you please point to subnotebook that is better than the
- Gateway, that weighs less than 3 lbs, has a backlit graphics LCD, better
- battery life, typeable keyboard no smaller than the Gateway, and a processor
- faster than the Gateway, preferably one that can run Windows 3.1 ?
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