The latest laptops: faster, sleeker, more powerful; companies disagree over whether customers want diskette drives built in
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Grid Systems Corp, Airis Computer Corp and Texas Instruments Inc are three of the many companies to introduce new or enhanced laptop computers at the 1990 PC Expo trade show in Manhattan. Grid Systems' $2,895 Grid 1810 is a 6.7 pound laptop with a full-size keyboard, removable 20Mbyte hard drive and 10-inch liquid crystal display (LCD). Potential corporate users seem to like the removable hard disk and accept the lack of a floppy, seeing each as good for data security. Grid also has a $4,995 1450sx based on the Intel 80386SX microprocessor. Airis shows its prototype $1,899 notebook-size, 6.5 pound laptop that runs for 12 hours on standard 'C' batteries. It has a full-size keyboard and 11-inch screen. Texas Instruments' Travelmate 2000 is a very lightweight notebook computer, weighing 4.4 pounds with a 20Mbyte hard disk and a full size VGA screen.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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Texas Instruments gets personal; with laptops and an impressive laser printer, it is back in the PC market
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Texas Instruments is reasserting its presence in the personal computer market with the introduction of a series of portable computers and a laser printer. The $1,999 Microlaser printer is aimed at the low-end market currently dominated by HP's LaserJet IIP. Microlaser is expected to have a street price of around $1,299, which is about $300 higher than the HP product but, at six pages per minute, is faster. Microlaser can also be upgraded to run PostScript. The 80286-based portable computers, the TravelMate series, range in price from $4,199 to $5,599. They are not expected to compete well against similar products from marketing giants such as Compaq, Toshiba, Zenith and NEC.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1989
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The latest convert to network religion? Big blue; two powerful new personal computers demonstrate a change in strategy
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IBM announces two microcomputers, based on the powerful Intel Corp 80486 microprocessor, that function as upgradable file servers in a computer network. The new line of microcomputers, the PS/2 90 and the PS/2 95, represents a commitment to the growing trend of the client/server architecture in computer networks. IBM, which has traditionally touted the attachment of dumb terminals to a centralized mainframe computer, is also becoming more customer-oriented instead of sales-oriented by designing machines that can be upgraded. The computer maker will only charge customers the difference between the price of their model and the price of an upgrade model.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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