Hitachi launches Win98, B5 sub-notebook
- — 30 June, 1999 21:49
Hitachi Australia has released a new sub-notebook that fits into a brand new class of products in portable computing, the company says.
The Hitachi 220 Ultra-Lite Notebook is the size of a B5 sheet of paper, weighs 1.3kg and is less than 3cm thick.
Hitachi emphasises it is not a Win CE system, but runs on Windows 98 and features an Intel 266MHz MMX processor.
The Hitachi 220 Ultra-Lite also incorporates a 10.4in LCD display, a 2MB video card, 32MB SDRAM and a 3.2GB or 4.3GB hard drive. External CD-ROM and floppy drives are available as optional extras.
For connectivity, the notebook includes a USB port, infra-red port and a port bar connector that includes two PS/2 ports, a parallel connection, a serial connector and an external monitor plug.
The notebook runs on a Li-Ion batter with two hours operating life.
The Hitachi 220 Ultar-Lite is priced from $4350.
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