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- From: mcclaine@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Casey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Re: 486SLC?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.201428.28197@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 20:14:28 GMT
- References: <1992Jul15.195909.28143@amgen.com>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- >From: chriss@sam.amgen.com (Chris Silvester)
-
- >I'm considering purchasing a 486 Notebook from PC Brand. The following
- >configuration is available from them for under $2000:
-
- > 486 25 MHz Cyrex (Spelling?) Processor
- > 2MB Ram
- > 1.44 Floppy
- > Paper White VGA, backlit LCD
- > external Color VGA port
- > 1 Parallel / 2 Serial ports
- > external keyboard port
- > MS DOS 5.0
- > 120 MB IDE Hard Drive
-
- >Seems like a good deal to me. My concern is the non-Intel processor. They
- >claim 100% compatibility with Intel...
-
- >Does anyone have any helpful info on this processor and/or this company?
-
- From my reading of the latest PC Magazine (Aug, 92), they claim that
- the computer performs fairly well. I have noticed that the processor
- speed finds a nice niche in between the 386 and 486 processors.
- However, the final comment that the reviewer made was that they hoped
- that they would run into a machine in the future that would
- "work with, not against" the 486-SLC chip.
-
-
- - Rob
-