Hi, I have a laptop travelmate 739 TLV, with Windows 2000 prof.
And experience repeat "random" problems when starting. Many time the screen gets frozen with the Acer logo. I have to shut down several times before it comes back.

rodrigo2/1/2002 6:07:29 AM

I read with interest, “Run NT on Laptops? Yes, You Can!” (March 1997). I’m surprised that you didn’t test a Toshiba machine. Having used a Satellite Pro 400 CDT, with 24MB of memory for more than 15 months, I’ve had good experiences with NT on a laptop.
NT 3.51’s performance was always very good on the 70MHz Pentium. I recently upgraded to NT 4.0 and Service Pack 1 (SP1), and the same apps as on NT 3.51, plus Exchange (mainly using Remote Access Service—RAS), Visual Basic (VB), and Access, are slower. Also, shutting down the system takes several minutes longer than with NT 3.51. The Toshiba machine is useful for general-purpose apps with NT 4.0, but we are now looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest model.

--G.Langrish



I’m glad you’ve had such good experience with your Toshiba. In fact, numerous Toshiba portables are in use throughout our company, and many are running NTW 4.0. We didn’t review Toshiba because Toshiba told us that it didn’t support NT and thus didn’t want to participate. In the near future, as manufacturers start embedding Phoenix Technologies’ new NoteBIOS, which includes direct support for NT 4.0, manufacturers will become more willing to endorse NT on laptops. And, as revisions to NT 4.0 come out and NT 5.0 appears with better portable support, more vendors will be interested in tapping the growing NT market.

--Joel Sloss

G.Langrish 8/12/1999 3:34:15 PM