From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sat May 02 1998 - 21:50:21 EDT
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.
-- Paul Khoury | <pkhoury_at_loop.com> | Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4, Slackware Linux, and Sun Solaris 2.4
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