From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Sat May 02 1998 - 17:34:49 EDT
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 !
>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." -- !
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