October 1995 / BYTE Lab Product Report

11 Ultraportables Go The Distance Lightweights with a Punch	On the road again? These portables weigh in at about 6 pounds and offer near-desktop-level performance, great displays, large hard drives, and loads of useful features. - by Anthony J. Lennon and John McDonough
High-End Ultraportables Digital HiNote Ult ra CT475 The Road Warrior's High-End Companion	We tested five high-end ultraportables that should reduce a road warrior's fears about taking to the streets.
The Incredible Shrinking Pentium Pentium Performance PhotoToshiba's Portégé 610CT	A laptop can never be too fast nor weigh too little. - by Rex Baldazo
Lower-Cost Alternatives AT&T Globalyst 130 PhotoAT&T Globalyst 130.	The lower-cost ultraportables we tested averaged $2100 less than the high-end ultraportables.
Touchpads To Navigate By Lower-Cost Alternatives	An individual's taste in pointing devices, like music and art, is highly subjective. - by Stanford Diehl
Printers to Go Printers At A Glance Printer Performance Printers Go Portable	We reviewed three portable printers that you can hook up to an ultraportable for a short print job if you're stuck in a hotel or an airport.
How We Tested	To pick the best ultraportables, we first ran a suite of tests using applications-based tests and NSTL's InterMark performance benchmarks to determine the fastest systems.
Hot CPU Chips Keep Their Cool Less is More	There has always been a great compromise for users of portable systems: A faster (and hotter) CPU always meant shorter battery life.
Apple's Dynamic Duo PowerBook Performance Battery Duration Apple's PowerBook Duo 2300c	In August, Apple migrated its ultraportable computer line (called the PowerBook Duo) to the PowerPC processor. - by Tom Thompson
Color For The Road Have Your Color And Carry It, Too	If you happen to be on the road with your trusty color PowerBook and you need to knock out a full-color document for a client, whom are you going to call? - by Tom Thompson
Honorable Mentions Irda-Compliant Ports Well-Placed Trackball	Tired of fumbling around behind your desktop system for a serial port every time you have to transfer files to and from your desktop system and ultraportable?
Dubious Achievements Keeping Mouse on Short Leash Not Conducive to Productivity	On the two Austin ultraportables, the Sceptre TS37 Subnotebook, and Gateway's Liberty, you have to pull the external floppy drive off the parallel port if you want to connect a parallel-attached network adapter, printer, or external CD-ROM drive.
Primax's Colormobile Office Scan in Transit	So you've picked your ultraportable and portable printer.
Zinc-Air Batteries Last All Day	In portable computing, no technology seems to be changing more rapidly than that of batteries.

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