we all know that apple's laptops are built tough and last a long time (three to five years and sometimes longer)
as a pc tech, every pc laptop i have seen over three years old had something terribly wrong with it (dead screen, missing keys and keys that didn't work, dead battery with the only resort an expensive replacement that was jacked up in price, etc...)
after three years as a technician and many laptops later, i have finally found a fully functioning PC laptop from 1997 with a pcmcia 33k x-jack modem and a proprietary pci expansion slot in the back for modem or ethernet card ( i have only seen back panel expansion slots on desktops)
it's a hitachi and uses a pentium 1 mmx, 12" passive screen, 1.33 GB hard drive, 32 MB of RAM, and weighs a ton and must be 2" inches thick
af first i thought the screen had something wrong with it because it was so faint, but it's a pre-dual scan passive matrix lcd, which was replaced in the industry with dual scan passive matrix, then hpa passive matrix, and finally where we are today with the active matrix screen
it originally had windows 95 but got a windows 98 upgrade, and the productivity software with it is microsoft works 2.0
a five year old, fully functioning pc laptop should go into a pc museum as a curiosity
as a pc tech, every pc laptop i have seen over three years old had something terribly wrong with it (dead screen, missing keys and keys that didn't work, dead battery with the only resort an expensive replacement that was jacked up in price, etc...)
after three years as a technician and many laptops later, i have finally found a fully functioning PC laptop from 1997 with a pcmcia 33k x-jack modem and a proprietary pci expansion slot in the back for modem or ethernet card ( i have only seen back panel expansion slots on desktops)
it's a hitachi and uses a pentium 1 mmx, 12" passive screen, 1.33 GB hard drive, 32 MB of RAM, and weighs a ton and must be 2" inches thick
af first i thought the screen had something wrong with it because it was so faint, but it's a pre-dual scan passive matrix lcd, which was replaced in the industry with dual scan passive matrix, then hpa passive matrix, and finally where we are today with the active matrix screen
it originally had windows 95 but got a windows 98 upgrade, and the productivity software with it is microsoft works 2.0
a five year old, fully functioning pc laptop should go into a pc museum as a curiosity
