Re: 760XL from www.cdw.com $1400

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Wed Oct 07 1998 - 12:08:47 EDT

Sereella..
IBM made a line of non-mwave macines..
lower cost is the reason..
also, for those who want a modem, the pcmcia slots should suffice..
the plus is you get whatever you want and don't have the uncertainty of the DSP
modem, AND in the 760, the DSP was too slow for SB and full speed modem at the
same time..
these days a non DSM machine is better for some users..

there are a bunch on non-DSP thinkpads..
76xEL, ELD, L and a whole line of 770's..

Serenella Ciongoli wrote:

> > The 760XL is based on a very fast modern Pentium chipset (Intel MX ).
> > PCI bus and a 3rd gen video chipset trident 9385.. with too little memory
> > ...sigh
> > It also has no Video in or out support.
>
> I have been checking the overview of the 760XL is in the Roger Dodson
> Thinkpad Compilation tpichart.pdf available from:
> ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/mobiles
>
> If I read it correctly, the 760XL does not have DSP, nor internal Mwave
> modem.
>
> This would be the only Thinkpad I know of that would not have an internal
> modem. Could anyone confirm this for me? And possibly explain me the
> rationale behind this absence?
>
> I do not need video in/out, but, having had an internal modem on my TP760,
> now I wonder if buying a laptop without an internal modem is a good idea or
> not.
>
> Serenella Ciongoli 

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