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On Sat, 2 May 1998 11:34:49 -1000, David Ross wrote: >On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Ray Bay wrote: >> >>> Take a look at the >>> new HP Pentium II's > > >Unfortunately, they use Lithium Polymer batteries with a very small number of recharge cycles, something like >half the already pathetic Li-Ion norm, so budget for some spare batteries ! > Is Li-Ion really that bad? Worse than NiMH? >>spoken to knew next to nothing about the machine. This may be different in >>the States but here in Europe they should take a lesson from IBM. > > >In the US, HP service is very very good. I don't know what it is about European divisions of computer companies. A dozen or so years I was outfitting an English university with a technical word processing setup. I knew that the software I'd chosen worked very well with Toshiba printers, but I wasn't able to find anyone who sold them. I called Toshiba UK to get the name of a supplier, and eventually made my way to the VP in charge of sales. When I asked *him* for the name of someone who sold his printers he said - and this is the exact quote, as best as I remember it - "It is not corporate policy to divulge this information." -- ! > That's absolutely absurd. In some ways, it sounds like IBM, too. Fortunately, when I went that high, the practically replaced my whole ThinkPad after I filed a complaint with them. -- Paul Khoury | <pkhoury@loop.com> | Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4, Slackware Linux, and Sun Solaris 2.4