PC Magazine's review of new 366MHz notebooks
Editors' Choice:
Corporate: Toshiba Tecra 8000
Small business/single user: Dell Inspiron 7000 A366LT
Intel's 366-MHz Mobile Pentium II processor delivers the best of both worlds for road warriors--top performance and long battery life. And whether you're buying for yourself or for a business large or small, you'll find that there's a PII/366 notebook to suit your computing habits.
Our Editors' Choice for corporate users is the Toshiba Tecra 8000 ($4,000 street). This portable is ideal for companies concerned about costs associated with deploying notebooks, because it was designed from the outset to lower those costs. All Tecra 8000 machines are built using the same motherboard design, chassis, software image, and chip sets, so you have to qualify the platform only one time. And they feature all the leading-edge components you'd expect, at a significantly lower price than its corporate-focused competition.
For small businesses and individuals, our Editors' Choice is the Dell Inspiron 7000 A366LT ($3,549 direct). If you don't want to sacrifice anything but still need an affordable notebook, this Dell's the way go. The Inspiron's DVD playback quality was absolutely flawless and far superior to the competition, particularly in full-screen mode. The notebook's graphics subsystem--which includes a 15-inch XGA display and an ATI Rage LT Pro 2X AGP controller with 8MB of SGRAM--plus an integrated hardware-DVD decoder add up to first-rate viewing. Top it off with an 8GB hard disk, an integrated 56K modem, and a three-year warranty, and you've got one great notebook.
Complete review:
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