October 1996 / BYTE Hardware Lab Report

19 Pentium Portables Do Multimedia Portable Multimedia	With Pentium processors, gigabytes of drive space, large screens, and CD-ROM drives, these notebooks are more than ready for prime time. - by Maggi Bender, Jim Kane, and John McDonough
Pentium Portables	Almost every desktop maker now has a portable for sale, and the market is stratifying with notebooks at different price/performance levels.
Taking the Heat	Heat is the limiting fact or in getting high-end desktop performance out of a portable computer.
Pentium Portables Ratings Best Overall: NEC Technologies Versa 6030H Best Desktop Replacement: NEC Technologies Versa 6030H Low Cost: WinBook FX NEC Technologies Versa 6030H NEC Technologies Versa 6030H WinBook FX
Details Ultracool Design Making Your Point NEC's Bug Barrier	If you find most notebook designs boringly similar, check out Digital Equipment's HiNote Ultra II.
Up Against the Wall Effective Overheads from a Notebook	Hooking a 17-inch monitor to a notebook is a cost-effective way to make a presentation to a small group of people sitting around a table. - by John McDonough
Test Specs	We picked the best portable Pentiums by running low-level and application benchmarks under Windows 95, as well as battery tests under real-world conditions.
AMD Inside	Not every road warrior can afford to fork over $3000 or more for a Pentium-powered multimedia notebook.

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