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> >On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Randal Whittle wrote: >> At 10:12 AM 9/11/97 CDT, Abbas Bandali wrote: >> > >> >I have never been a fan of HP - I prefer Apple printers to HP, and Epson >> >scanners to HP. Will we be in for a shocker in '98 ??? >> >> Au contraire--I think HP makes some of the best equipment available. They >> make the best calculators and the best palmtops hands-down. Their printers >> and scanners may not necessarily be the "best" on the market, but there's >> no question that they lead the way and set the standard--all the rest are >> also-ran copycats that sometimes improve on the pioneering effort. > >According to an HP recruiter back when I was in undergrad, one >of the tests they run on their printers is to drop it from >desktop height. If anything breaks, it gets redesigned. Dunno >if the other companies do that. > I definately doubt that IBM does that. I think that the ThinkPads might not survive (model dependent, but the 701 wouldn't because of the keyboard style). Once I dropped my PocketJet printer from about arms length (go figure, then I was maybe like 6'2"), which, now would be about 3 inches higher. Anyways, it turned on fine and even printed out a test page with no problems. HP seems to make durable stuff, but I hear that their Omnigo palmtops are somewhat flimsy on the Omnigo list I used to belong to. But overall, they are pretty good (I just wish my Omnigo could handle PCMCIA cards better, like 2400bps modems!). BTW, has anyone seen or have the Palmtop PC110? It's actually smaller than the Libretto, and I even saw that in a photo. Only thing is, who wants a 486SX-33 with Win95? Just my 4 cents for extra long content. Paul ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com