IBM Corp’s rejuvenation of its PS/2 line yesterday held only one real surprise, launch of a second laptop computer, a PS/2 N33SX notebook computer which uses an 80386SX slowed to 12MHz, and weighs just 5 lbs 8 oz against the 7 lbs 2 oz of the L40 SX and has a 40Mb disk against the […]
IBM Corp’s rejuvenation of its PS/2 line yesterday held only one real surprise, launch of a second laptop computer, a PS/2 N33SX notebook computer which uses an 80386SX slowed to 12MHz, and weighs just 5 lbs 8 oz against the 7 lbs 2 oz of the L40 SX and has a 40Mb disk against the 60Mb of its big brother; the weight is reduced by making the 3.5 1.44Mb floppy drive external; the battery pack is also good for only 1 hour 36 minutes, it has 2Mb memory and costs UKP1,865 from August. The company also previewed 50MHz 80486 upgrades for the 90 XP and 95 XP as suggested in today’s page three which went to press ahead of the announcement: Intel Corp has not actually launched the chip yet. The mid-range machines all use the 20MHz 80386SX. The Micro Channel 57SX has five slots and is UKP2,473 with 80Mb, UKP3,566 with 160Mb from August; the Model 40SX has five AT slots at UKP1,921 for 40Mb, UKP2,244 with 80Mb; the Model 35SX has three AT slots and is UKP1,335 with floppy, UKP1,693 with 40Mb. The 35LS is a diskless version at UKP1,658, all now. There are new 40Mb, 80Mb and 160Mb versions of the 55SX and 80Mb and 160Mb versions of the Model 70. The 3.5 erasable optical drive is UKP1,109 from next month. The new 2.88Mb floppy drive, UKP203, is standard on the 57SX, optional on the 35 and 40, and can read 1.44Mb and 720Kb disks. There is also an unpriced external 2.3Gb SCSI tape drive. IBM also added Microsoft Corp’s MS-DOS 5.0 release and Novell Inc’s NetWare.
