[ltp] 770 EOL????

[Maureen Lecuona]

God I hope you are right.  A high quality desktop replacement is critical for
most of the software developers I know.  Myself included.  As I said, I have 2
770's and I will be buying another desktop replacement laptop as soon as the
Pentium III's are at a reasonably high clock rate.  I want to save my
investments in multiple accessories, so I would like a Thinkpad that supports
the Travelstar 14GS and 25GS drives (I own three 14.1 GB drives and three 8 GB
drives, plus 3 power supplies, and 3 batteries, which represents a considerable
cash investment!!!).  If the new Thinkpads are not compatible in disk format,
and are not desktop replacements, then then I will be rethinking very carefully
before I buy a laptop. 

I LOVE IBM top of the line laptops, but I don't want to lose my shirt rebuying
disks, batteries and power supplies everytime a new Thinkpad comes out.  And I
certainly won't consider a Thinkpad that is NOT a desktop replacement laptop.

Maureen Lecuona

"Grubbs, Dan" wrote:
> 
> I would almost bet that IBM will announce a whole new family of notebooks at Comdex that are to replace the 770 line and use the form factor similar to the 600E.  Probably be called the 780 or 790.  It will likely have 8 or 16 MB video RAM 1280 x 1024 display and a mobile Pentium III capable motherboard, but the first will probably be a 400 PII.  They might even offer integrated ethernet and offer preloaded Linux (RH) or at least utilities and patches.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Fluch [mailto:fluch@rock.helsinki.fi]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 4:05 PM
> To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> Subject: Re: [ltp] 770 EOL????
> 
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Michael Cameron wrote:
> 
> > I could not agree more.
> > Your observations also contribute to the popularity of Linux on the
> > Thinkpad i.e. getting a complete development environment on a portable
> > machine.  This is how I use my 770ED and how the others I know with
> > Linux on a 770 use theirs.
> >
> > If IBM cut the 770 I think a significant number of Linux users
> > (including myself) may be looking elsewhere for a replacement machine.
> >
> > I hope that some IBM people who subscribe to these lists might have a
> > little influence and point this out.
> 
> The same hope I.
> 
> Martin
> 
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