Re: B5 laptop recommendations?

[Jonathan Q <j-q@example.com>]

ITSUMI ken-ichi (amt@example.com) wrote:

> # Toshiba has B5 Thiner windows box with Dsub 9pin serial port

What model is it?  When we were looking, the Stinkpad 240 was the
only one we saw that met the Dsub-9 requirement.

The trouble with Toshiba notebooks is that Toshiba usually means
"crappy pointing device."  I have a company Toshiba notebook 
at home for running TCM from there, and it has an "eraser in the
keyboard" type pointing device similar to IBM's, but unlike IBM's,
this one is a real PITA to use.  Poor precision, lousy tracking and
balistics.  The one on our Stinkpad, by comparison, is a joy.  It's
so good that it doesn't make me wish for a mouse.

But AFAIK all of the thinline Toshiba models have a trackpad, which
of course translates into "evil and should be killed."  

I also use an older Libretto, and it has a horrible pointing device,
too.  The worst.  But we put up with it because of the small size
and super portability, which is why we bought it.

Anyway, the Thinkpad 240 is almost as thin and light as the Toshiba,
has a 12 GB disk and (with the expansion module) 192 meg of RAM.  The
Toshiba models we saw all maxed out at 96 meg.  At the risk of
sounding like an IBM commercial, if you're a network admin and need
a notebook to take on the road, you probably won't find anything that
can match the Thinkpad 240 (coming from someone who uses one for
exactly that purpose).

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