You can’t keep a good engineer down and George Morrow is so obsessed by lap-tops that he is preparing a new one for market, reports Microbytes Daily: the new machine will be a conventional rather than one of the new generation of pocket machines, but will use the 80386SX chip – he believes it will become the standard for portable computers; the box will be VGA-compatible with a 640 by 480 screen showing at least 16 shades of grey, perhaps as many as 32 shades, using a new graphics controller from Cirrus Logic Inc; he hopes to get eight hours on one battery charge and plans to use Nickel Hydride rather than Nickel Cadmium cells, because they have double the power-to-weight ratio, and instead of a floppy, he is thinking in terms of the embryonic 20Mb or 40Mb 2.5 Winchesters, and to load stuff into the machine, he is thinking of unconventional means such as infra-red transmission and radio-frequency modems; he hopes to show the $4,000 box at Comdex/Fall.
