To dock or not to dock?
Written: Sep 08 '99
|
Product Rating:
|
|
| Ease of Use: |
 |
|
|
Pros: portable, powerful, convenient with docking station
Cons: expensive, possibly buggy with NT
|
|
|
| dchang's Full Review: Toshiba Portege 7020 |
The Portege 7020 is powerful (Pentium II 366, 128 MB RAM) and highly portable (~1 inch thick, 3-4 pounds in weight). I also purchased the optional DVD docking station, which includes a DVD player, floppy drive, serial ports, etc. The docking station is great...it is very easy to dock and un-dock the laptop. I leave the docking station at work with the power and network plugged in. That way, all I need to do when I get to work is plop the laptop on top of the docking station and I'm ready to go. The docking station is relatively portable itself...it is very light weight, ~1 inch thick, perhaps slightly larger than the laptop. The DVD docking station only works with Windows 95 or 98, not with NT.
If you choose not to dock, the accessories are typical of other ultra-thin laptops...external floppy and port replicator (included), external CD-ROM (extra).
I have heard from colleagues that the Toshiba 7020 is not NT-friendly. I initially had problems with my Windows 95 version (it crashed frequently when I would use Outlook/Internet Explorer...something to do with the internal ethernet card), but after my IT group re-imaged the laptop these problems disappeared. Apparently, it is not easy (though not impossible) to get NT working with the external CD-ROM.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 4000
Operating System: Windows
Processor speed: 301-400
Screen Size: 13"
RAM: 128
Internal Storage: DVD
Hard Drive (GB): 4-6
|
|
|
|
Epinions.com ID:
dchang
|
|
Reviews written: 8
Trusted by: 1 member
|
|
|
- Add to My Yahoo!: 
- Add to Google Homepage: 
© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc.