Fora Inc, San Jose, California reckons that it has cracked the problems of powering a laptop to use a gas plasma display instead of those ghastly liquid crystal diode displays that most people have to put up with: its new LP386SX Model 50 has standard configuration of 1Mb RAM, 64Kb ROM, 40Mb hard and 1.44Mb floppy drive, lists for $4,800 and ships next month and the high power consumption of gas plasma is alleviated by using a removable rechargeable 48 Watt-hour Nickel Cadmium battery and an intelligent power management system to enable battery saving hard disk and display sleep modes; it weighs a hefty 19.8 lbs with the battery, and measures 13 by 14.6 by 3.9.
