From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Wed Jun 03 1998 - 15:36:21 EDT
At 09:39 PM 6/2/98 , Victor Kress wrote:
>I'm in the same boat. After Randal's review, my only issues are
>hard-disk size, general availability of third party parts, and the
I don't think its a stretch of the imagination to suggest the 600 will
quickly be up to speed as far as 3rd parties making stuff for it. You have
to concede that its only been available for...what, a month? Maybe a
little more? The 770 has had at least 6 months of life--more than that, if
you count earlier flavors of the 770 (and even more than that if you count
the 760's as a predecessor for much of its basic design--the Ultrabay
itself has been around for a couple of years!).
>fact that the 770 can take 2 batteries at once (if you remove the
>floppy/cd. Is my interpretation correct that you can't do this with
>the 600?
Confirmed on IBM's web site. Only 1 battery.
> At this point I'm leaning to the 600, but yesterday morning
>I was leaning to the 770.
I'm a persuasive guy. ;-)
Look for the follow-up to my review...I expect to send it later today.
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Randal J. Whittle whittle_at_usc.edu (213) 740-7775
Director, Electronic Commerce Program
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
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