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From: golden@frith.uucp (James M Golden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: laptop selection
Summary: 386 notebook
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Date: 22 Dec 90 10:27:59 GMT
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To those who are looking for '386 notebooks, there is a new
'386 version of the TI/Sharp PC-6220 (8.5x11") that should be shipping
soon.  It is only slightly heavier (5.7 lbs as opposed to 4.4 lbs)
and slightly thicker (1.8 in as opposed to 1.4) but includes a
1.44 MB 3.5" disk drive and a 20 or 40 MB Hard-Disk drive.
It's called the TI TravelMate 3000 and runs off a 20MHz '386SX.
It has the same 10" diagonal supertwist liquid-crystal, edge-lit 
black-on-white VGA display as it predecessor and comes with 2MB
ram standard, upgradeable to 6MB.  List price (street prices will
cheaper) is US$5499 for the 20MB version and US$5999 for the 40MB
version.

There will also be the Compaq LTE 3286s/20, an 8.5x11x(2?)" notebook
with an edge-lit VGA display, 20MHz '386SX microprocessor, a 1.44MB
3.5" disk drive and a 30 or 60 MB Hard-disk drive.  The list prices
(which, again will be cheaper on the street, but Compaq's distibution
network is tighter and more limited than the TI/Sharp/CompuAdd distrib-
ution, which means that prices won't go down as quickly or as much as
the TI's prices will) are US$6499 for the 30MB model and US$6999 for
the 60MB model.

The reason for the high prices on notebook sized 40 and 60MB Hard-disk
drives is the fact that 30MB drives are/were state-of-the-art and
anything above 30 is hot off the R&D shelves and pushing the limits
of the technology.

			Mike Golden (golden@frith.msu.edu)
			Electrical Engineering Undergrad.
			Michigan State University