April 1995 / BYTE Lab Product Report

30 No-Compromise Notebooks BEHEMOTHS IN DISGUISE	We test top-of-the-line notebook computers with the horsepower and features to make traveling executives' dreams come true. - by Anthony J. Lennon and John McDonough
486DX4 Lab Notes WEIGHTING FOR DESKTOP REPLACEMENT WEIGHTING FOR BEST OVERALL AND LOW-COST THE ASCENTIA 910N ASCENDS THE THRONE INCREDIBLE FEATURES FOR THE AFFLUENT AS THE NAME SAYS, THE WINBOOK'S A WINNER AST Ascentia 910N IBM ThinkPad 755CD Notebook WinBook XP AST Ascentia 810N AST'S 486DX2/66 ASCENTIA 810N VS. 486DX4/75 NOTEBOOKS AST Ascentia 810N	The clock-tripled Intel 486DX4 processors enable systems manufacturers to approach entry-level Pentium performance with minor motherboard upgrades.
How We Tested The Cat's Pajamas: The Powerbook 540c PowerBook 540C	PERFORMANCE We assessed the performance of each system with a suite of BYTE low-level DOS benchmarks and NSTL's applications and low-level InterMark tests for Windows.
Pentium Lab Notes BEST OVERALL -- SCEPTRE PENTIUM SOUNDX Pentium Notebooks Sceptre Pentium Soundx	The emergence of 3.3-volt, SL-enhanced Pentium processors makes Pentium-based notebooks very nice traveling companions.
75- to 90-MHz Portables: Dolch Dolch L-PAC 586 By The Time You Read This. Do The Electric Glide The Alps Electric GlidePoint	Dolch's L-PAC 586 90 MHz is a unique system, designed primarily for engineers.
Honorable Mentions Panasonic V41 Multimedia Notebook Digital Equipment HiNote CT 475 Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX Model 510	The Panasonic V41 Multimedia Notebook PC features an internal double-speed CD-ROM drive.
Dubious Achievements Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX Model 510: Trackball Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX Model 510: Molded Buttons Zenith Z-NoteFlex Awkward Trackball Placement: AT&T and NEC	The Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX Model 510's integrated trackball is awkwardly placed.

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