The new sub-thinkpads are coming, finally!

[jesse montrose <jesse@spine.com>]

PC Week Online (February 20, 1996) - RALEIGH-DURHAM, N.C.--IBM today offered
further glimpses at future technology, including an attache-sized notebook
computer and a revolutionary "paper-white" monitor. 

As they finished up a two-day PC briefing here, company officials also 
disclosed several consumer computing initiatives planned by IBM, as 
well as the existence of a "breakthrough" network computer design. 

The decision to pull open the veil of secrecy and offer outsiders a 
peek at still-unreleased technology is part of a strategy designed to 
pre-empt competitors with novel computer features, according to 
executives, who said IBM planned to accelerate the pace at which it 
brings new technology to the market. 

Features in the ultralight notebook computer IBM showed are still a 
moving target, but the unit will debut before the end of the year, said 
Steve Ward, general manager of mobile computing. 

The unit's dimensions are 8.5 inches by 11 inches by 1.25 inches thick. 
It weighs about 4 pounds and was shown with a 12.1-inch thin-film 
transistor screen. When the unit is introduced, sandwiched between 
IBM's "value" 300 and "performance" 700 series notebook computers, it 
probably will come with an 11.3-inch screen option, Ward added. 

The prototype unit was running Windows 95 with 8M bytes of RAM and a 
1G-byte hard disk. The CPUs will be Pentiums, starting at 100 MHz and 
going up, depending on heat dissipation. 

"We will watch the heat very closely," Ward said, noting the unit's 
smaller-than-normal enclosure. 

IBM has developed several ultralite prototypes, including a similar one 
code-named Kite, said Ward. However, he denied the rumored existence of 
a 1-pound ultralite with a 12-inch screen. 

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