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Hewlett-Packard OmniBook 800CT.
In late September, 1998, MicroWarehouse offered one of the leading
subnotebooks of the past two years, at an incredibly low price. It was usually reviewed
in the low to mid $4000 range, dipped to $3000 or so by late 1997. It returned in
October with an even more appealing bonus pack: docking station, and CD-ROM, included.
SPECS: Pentium 166 MMX processor, 512K L2 pipeline-burst cache, 80 MB
EDO DRAM, PCI local bus, 2GB EIDE
HD on the PCI bus, video is 128-bit SVGA video (2 MB memory) on a
10" TFT screen, built-in SCSI-2, 2
Type-II, 32-bit CardBus PC Card slots, 4 Mbps
IrDA, 16-bit audio. Great design and construction.
Robust lithium-ion battery. Small. Fast. Light. Excellent keyboard.
It's even certified for NT 3.51 or 4.0, if you please. The
docking station has a SCSI-2 connector on the back (the CD-ROM comes with
the docking port-to-SCSI-2 conversion cable, a nice dividend), and an
additional ISA/PCI card slot, which currently houses a 10baseT Ethernet card.
... By March, 1999, the supply of 800s had dried up. And the new OmniBook 900
(which looks just as lovely a package) was available on the open market,
starting at ... $2500. My OmniBook 800 continues to be a really
great value, allowing me to work on e-mail and documents quickly and easily
on small cafe tables. Keep your 12" and 14" displays, and huge palm rests.
Small is wonderful.
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