Sony Corp is set to follow rivals Toshiba Corp into the RISC-based portable market with the first portable machine to use the MIPS R3000 chip (CI No 1,570). Although few details are currently available, the machine is expected to sport a high resolution 1,120 by 780 LCD screen and 240Mb disk. The machine is likely […]
Sony Corp is set to follow rivals Toshiba Corp into the RISC-based portable market with the first portable machine to use the MIPS R3000 chip (CI No 1,570). Although few details are currently available, the machine is expected to sport a high resolution 1,120 by 780 LCD screen and 240Mb disk. The machine is likely to bear the same sort of relationship to Sony’s current MIPS R3000-based NWS-4310D as the current Motorola-based portable NWS-1250, does to the NWS-1500. Sony is currently preparing to reveal price cuts of up to 25% on the 4310D next week, bringing the entry-level price in the UK down to under UKP7,000 for a stand-alone system. The new machine will be a portable rather than a laptop, due to the power requirements of the hard disk. It is also expected to be available worldwide, probably during the first half of next year, when Toshiba’s Sparc-based portable computer is also likely to become available outside Japan for the first time.
