An hitherto unknown company out of Houston, Texas says that it has the first Intel Corp 80486-based notebooks, and that they run Unix. The aptly named Notebook Computer Company expects to ship the three models of 486Notebook Workstation family this month. The things are said to weigh 4.5 lbs, including battery, and measure 8.5 by 11 by 1.4. Street prices start at $4,500 for a model with a 20MHz chip with a maths coprocessor emulator, 20Mb hard disk and 6Mb RAM and run up to $7,000 for a 33MHz 80486 with integrated on-chip maths co-processor, 60Mb drive and 10Mb RAM. All three use a triple supertwist 10 screen offering a 640 by 480 VGA display and a 79-key board. The company has come up with a special expansion pad that includes high-performance analogue colour port (2,000 by 1,600 effective resolution, 700,000 simultaneous colours), a 1.44Mb 3.5-inch drive, Disney Sound audio with speaker, SCSI interface, keyboard port, second serial port, IDE hard disk port and optional second hard drive worth up to 100Mb. A Hayes Microcomputer Products facsimile modem comes as an option.
