Hitachi Ltd is planning to come out within the next 12 months with a laptop computer having a colour liquid crystal display that uses the TFT mode, which provides a much superior display to the SuperTwist Nematic mode currently used in most recent products, including the B32-LXC laptop: in contrast to the STN mode, which uses a colour filter on a monchrome screen, the TFT mode controls the pixels on the display by means of transistors and diodes, and one of the Hitachi directors promised the appearance of a laptop with a colour display using the new technology by the end of 1990, at a price of under $6,900.
