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From: pds@leviathan.cs.umd.edu (David Stotts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: special laptop review issue
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Date: 20 Jan 91 00:57:43 GMT
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Just a note about 386sx notebooks... I desperately tried to buy
one prior to Jan 7 (when I was to travel) and only Zeos and
DataWorld are actually shipping... Austin, AST, Northgate,
an endless list of makers (other than the ridiculously priced
mainstream makers: EPSON, COmpaq, etc.) are all announcing
products and not shipping.

Watch for the March issue of PC Magazine coming out mid-February.
It is devoted to laptop review.  They have announced receipt of over
200 models from makers, and many of these will be laptop sized.
There is a coming explosion of 6 pound 386sx machines.  The way
things look now, $3000 will be the average price for a machine with 
around 2 meg memory and 20 meg hard drive (and floppy).  VGA screen 
of course.  We can all hope competition brings this number down some.

Dave Stotts
Univ. of Maryland