brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis) (03/27/91)
I am looking for a laptop or notebook computer with a display that goes beyond VGA. The application I am planning for the machine will require a resolution of at least 800*600 pixels, better would be 1024*768 or similar. Monochrome with 1 bit per pixel is okay, but I would also be interested in a grayscale version. Every kind of display is okay (LCD, gas plasma or whatever else), it does not necessarily have to run from a battery and it does not have to be extraordinarily lightweight. Everything below 10 kilogramms is fine. The other equipment that I am envisioning is a harddisk (between 40 and 100 Megabytes), a floppy, a 386SX or 386 CPU and between 4 and 8 Megabytes of memory. I already know about the Toshiba SPARC laptop and the Sony NEWS laptop which have resolutions around 1100*900 pixels, but they are far too expensive and have many features that I do not need. Additionally, they are heavier than what I would like. If anybody knows of such a machine, I would appreciate any information about it. Thanks! Marc-Michael Brandis Computer Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland email: brandis@inf.ethz.ch
shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) (03/27/91)
brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis) writes: >I am looking for a laptop or notebook computer with a display that goes >beyond VGA. The application I am planning for the machine will require a >resolution of at least 800*600 pixels, better would be 1024*768 or similar. >Monochrome with 1 bit per pixel is okay, but I would also be interested in >a grayscale version. I understand the Texas Instruments Travelmate 3000 supports 1024x768 through the external monitor connection, but still only 640x480 on the laptop screen. Speaking of external monitor connections, does anyone know of a notebook that supports *simultaneous* display through the onboard and external monitors? The notebook players are missing the boat on this one. Toshiba showed it could be done on their larger laptops, so what's the problem?
jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) (04/03/91)
brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis) writes: >I am looking for a laptop or notebook computer with a display that goes >beyond VGA. The application I am planning for the machine will require a >resolution of at least 800*600 pixels, better would be 1024*768 or similar. >Monochrome with 1 bit per pixel is okay, but I would also be interested in >a grayscale version. I was recently in the market for a high-resolution, 386 laptop, and I did not find any that went beyond VGA. You may well have to go to the "laptop workstation" market. There aren't many of these on the street yet, but I recently saw one very impressive demonstration of the Sony NEWS 3250 lap-denting laptop. It has a 1120x780 display on an 11" diag screen. A little cramped, maybe, but not really to bad. The 17 MIPS, 1.8 MFLOPS, 8-36 MB RAM, 240-406 MB disk, UNIX System V Release 4, X11R4, integrated SCSI and Ethernet, etc should support a most demanding application. You can get in touch with Sony sales at 800-624-8999 x96.