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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: The "high price" of the HP48!
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 18:42:59 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- References: <PHR.92Dec31121439@napa.telebit. <STEVEV.92Dec31204622@miser.uoregon.edu> <PHR.92Dec31214854@napa.telebit.com>
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- In article <PHR.92Dec31214854@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
- >In article <STEVEV.92Dec31204622@miser.uoregon.edu> stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
-
- > I can take the HP 48 with me
- > nearly all the time, and use it wherever I am, even for long
- > periods of time -- a laptop isn't as portable and has a much
- > shorter battery life (where can you get a laptop that runs for
- > one or two months on 3 AAA batteries?).
- >
- >How about a 95LX? A Poqet PC (not sure)?
-
- Those two machines use two AA batteries each and might actually run as
- long as two months. I'm lucky if my 95 runs as long as 4 weeks, a
- Fujitsu Poqet PC runs as long or longer. The 95 costs over 1.5 times
- as much and the Fujitsu costs over 2.3 times as much as a 48. The
- Fujitsu is also not as durable in part because it is physically larger
- and heavier.
-
- >didn't make me a better student. If someone posted a message saying
- >students in all curricula should have fancy stereo systems, I'd have
- >reacted the same way that I did about the 48.
-
- Fancy stereo systems are highly useful for all students for playing
- thoughtful and relaxing music while studying and for those intense
- group study sessions (e.g. parties).
- :-) :-) :-) :-)
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