DVD Comes to Laptops

January 1998 / What's New / DVD Comes to Laptops

Panasonic's CF-63 ($5999) introduces DVD-ROM to portable computing and delivers enough power and resolution to take advantage of the new medium. The DVD player has MPEG-2 playback and doubles as a 20X CD-ROM reader, so you don't forfeit CD-ROM capabilities by adopting the DVD standard. The computer has a 13.3-inch 1024 x 768 XGA active- matrix LCD screen, an S3 graphics control ler with 4-MB SGRAM, a 166-MHz Pentium with MMX, a 3.2-GB hard disk, 256 KB of Level 2 cache, and 32 MB of EDO RAM (expandable to 96 MB). The CF-63 weighs in at 8.7 pounds (with battery).
Contact:  Panasonic Personal Computer Company, Secaucus , NJ
Phone:    800-662-3537 or 201-271-3182
Internet: 
http://www.panasonic.com/ruggedpc

Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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