Re: TP 600 or 770 - What to buy?

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From: Victor Kress (kress_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 03 1998 - 00:39:33 EDT

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
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? At this point I'm leaning to the 600, but yesterday morning
I was leaning to the 770.

Another issue I am grappling with is PII vs P(entium). As I
understand it, there is a battery life/speed tradeoff. Does anybody
have any numbers to put on this? (There is also a dollar tradeoff,
but I have numbers on that :).

I'm still compiling numbers on the vendor survey. So far everybody is
pleased with their vendor. This is a big improvement on last time I
purchased a TP (back in the DOS preload days :).

-Victor

On Wed, 03 Jun 1998 10:16:00 -0400, Friedrich Huebler wrote:

>I am undecided between the ThinkPad 600 and 770 (the top of the line
>Pentium II 266 MHz models). It seems that the 600 can do everything
the
>770 can do, except using DVD disk.
>
>What reasons are there to get a 770 instead of a 600? Any opinions
are
>welcome.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Friedrich Huebler

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