From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Apr 05 1998 - 03:13:16 EDT
On Sat, 04 Apr 1998 10:16:54 -0500, richard wrote:
>I've been thinking about whether to replace my TP 560 (133mhz, active screen)
>with a 560x or a 600 or to wait for something better.
>
>I've been leaning towards the 560x, assuming the price comes down (currently
>about $3,300 - I assume it will go under $3,000 shortly). From what I read,
>it's about twice as fast as the 560, has a much bigger drive (4gb v. 1 gb), can
>hold much more ram (96mb v. 40mb) and has almost twice the battery life (almost
>4 hrs v. about 2)
>
>The 600 is only about 15% faster than the 560 (PCMag benchmarks). While it has
>a larger, higher resolution screen, it weighs about a pound more and the battery
>life is not as good (about 3:12). I don't use cd-rom's that often, so a cd-rom
>slot is of little interest. And it seems pricey - estimated street price is
>$4,950.
>
If it's that expensive, you might as well consider the 770 if you don't mind the extra weigh too
much, unless the 600 is a faster machine.
Also, does the 600 have a one year warranty? It seems that all 7xx series have a 3 year warranty,
while the 3xx and 5xx have a 1 year warranty (another good thing about my 701).
-- Paul Khoury <pkhoury_at_loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 5 There are 19 Processes with 72 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 2h 55m 29s 726ms.
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