IBM UK yesterday launched a colour laptop, two notebooks and two PS/2s. The 20MHz CL57 SX laptop is the first product to appear out of the joint IBM-Toshiba Corp Display Technology Inc development company. It has a Thin Film Transistor active matrix LCD display that can display up to 512 colours with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels. THe CL57 SX uses a 20MHz 80386SX and comes with 2Mb expandable to 18Mb, 80Mb disk and 1.44Mb floppy. It has an optional Micro Channel Communications cartridge for connecting to a Token Ring local net, AS/400 or mainframe. The briefcase-sized laptop weighs 11 lbs and will be available in April for UKP4,915. The new notebooks – the AT-bus N33 SX and the Micro Channel N51 SX – use the 16MHz 80386SX. The N33 SX comes with 2Mb standard, expandable to 6Mb, 9.5 16-greyscale VGA liquid crystal display, a 1.44Mb floppy and expansion ports. It offers a 40Mb or 80Mb disk, and weighs 5.5 lbs. The N51 SX has 2Mb of memory, expandable to 10Mb, a 40Mb disk, a 9.5 VGA display and the optional communications cartridge. Including the battery pack, it weighs 6.2 lbs. The N33 SX and the N51 SX are available now for UKP1,770 and UKP2,115 respectively. The PS/2 56 SLC and 57 SLC use IBM’s 30MHz 386SLC processor with its 8Kb cache and controller. The Model 57 SLC has five expansion slots, the 56 SLC has three, and both house 3.5 and 5.25 devices. The 57 SLC is configured with an 80Mb or 160Mb SCSI drive. The 56 SLC can be configured with a 40Mb, an 80Mb, or 160Mb drive, and there are diskless Token Ring or Ethernet versions. The new PS/2s go from UKP2,280 to UKP3,710 and are out now.
