Laptop history & future

  00 wish list 99 98 97 (retired) 96 (retired) 95 pilot (retired)
Model 3?? various color cover? 390E 380XD 380D 365XD 360CE
CPU 650MHz SpeedStep (Geyserville class) Pentium III Coppermine core mobile? Pentium II mobile, 256KB L2 cache, Dixon class 333MHz Pentium II 233MHz Pentium 150MHz Pentium 100MHz 486 DX2-50/25 MHz
RAM 256MB? 128MB 64MB 32MB 16MB 12MB
HD Ultra ATA-66, 12+ GB? 6.4GB,
S.M.A.R.T. EIDE ATA-4
4GB 1.3GB 810MB 340MB
color/contrast 15" digital interface 16:9? 14" 100:1 contrast active matrix 24-bit 1024x768 24-bit 100:1 HPA 800x600 16-bit 30:1dual-scan passive 16-bit dual-scan passive 8-bit active matrix
graphics AGP 4x, MPEG2? digital camera? OpenGL? 8M RAM? NeoMagic MagicGraph256AV 256-bit AGP, 2.5MB VRAM, ZV, MPEG-1, S-Video out, 1280x1024 external monitor, dual screen support PCI, ZV, MPEG1 PCI, ZV PCI VL
CD DVD-ROM+CDRW dual mode drive? removable DeviceBay/UltraBay FX 10-24x CD, optional DVD 10-24X 8X 4X none, 2X external
Audio hw wavetable? Dolby Digital sound? ESS Solo-1, 0.1W, Altec Lansing ® stereo speakers SoundBlaster Pro compatible, stereo speaker + subwoofer      
network USB 2.0? IEEE-1394a FireWire? built-in 10/100 Ethernet 100Mbps 32-bit Cardbus,USB, 4Mbps IrDA. Press-to-Select TrackPoint 100Mbps 32-bit Cardbus,USB, 4Mbps IrDA. 10Mbps 16-bit PC Card, 4Mbps IrDA 10Mbps 16-bit PCMCIA Card, 115Kbps IrDA, 1Mbps AMP wireless 10Mbps 16-bit PCMCIA Card, 2Mbps IBM wireless
modem Cable? xDSL?s 56Kbps V90 56Kbps V90 XJack 33.6/28.8 Kbps 14.4 Kbps 14.4 Kbps
OS 98SE, Millenium Edition, Windows 2000Professional? 98 95b (OSR2.1) 95b (OSR 2) 95a 95/WfWg 3.11
Weight < 7.0 lbs please 7.7 lbs 7.2 lbs      
Battery Li-Ion 5+ hours Li-Ion 3.8 hours Li-Ion NiMH? NiCad? NiCad?
 
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