From: Jeffrey Baker (plumbush2_at_mediaone.net)
Date: Sat Jul 08 2000 - 12:40:51 EDT
Hi Steve - I will reply on list, but I'm on my third 770Z 14.4 gig drive,
and yes, each one started out quiet and ended up whiny within weeks or a few
months. They seem to settle into a steady, annoying whine - i.e., this last
one hasn't gotten infinitely worse. As for me, I give up. I hate this
level of background noise, but I also don't see any real alternative to IBM.
I like their laptops otherwise, and more important, require the Trackpoint.
Maybe a Toshiba down the road, though I've used their Trackpoints briefly on
other people's machines and they feel too loosey-goosey to me at least on
first impression. Besides I'm not a laptop magnate and can't afford new
laptops very often. Nonetheless, I think it's ridiculous that IBM can't pay
more attention to the noise issue. I consider myself a reasonably sane
person (a psychologist with a framed license enabling me to certify myself
so, anyway) and it bothers me that anyone should have to feel like a crank
for being bothered by something so unreasonable as an expensive but
chronically noisy working companion. -- Jeff
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