Re: TP 600

["Paul Khoury" <pkhoury@loop.com>]

On Sat, 2 May 1998 11:34:49 -1000, David Ross wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Ray Bay wrote:
>>
>>> Take a look at the
>>> new HP Pentium II's
>
>
>Unfortunately, they use Lithium Polymer batteries with a very small number of recharge cycles, something like 
>half the already pathetic Li-Ion norm, so budget for some spare batteries !
>
Is Li-Ion really that bad?  Worse than NiMH?

>>spoken to knew next to nothing about the machine. This may be different in
>>the States but here in Europe they should take a lesson from IBM.
>
>
>In the US, HP service is very very good.  I don't know what it is about European divisions of computer 
companies.  A dozen or so years I was outfitting an English university with a technical word processing setup.  
I knew that the software I'd chosen worked very well with Toshiba printers, but I wasn't able to find anyone 
who sold them.  I called Toshiba UK to get the name of a supplier, and eventually made my way to the VP in 
charge of sales.  When I asked *him* for the name of someone who sold his printers he said - and this is the 
exact quote, as best as I remember it - "It is not corporate policy to divulge this information."  -- !
>
That's absolutely absurd.  In some ways, it sounds like IBM, too.  Fortunately, when I went that high, the 
practically replaced my whole ThinkPad after I filed a complaint with them.

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