I bought the Toshiba Portege 3015 earlier this week. I also looked closely at the Sony ultra slim notebook that is about the same size as the Toshiba. These are truly amazing computers. For just under $2,000 and weighing less than 3 lbs., the Toshiba is about 3/4" thick yet packs a 266 MMX Pentium, 32 mb RAM, a 4.3 gig hard drive, an active matrix screen, a USB port, two PC Card Type II slots, a lithium battery (I'm getting over 3 hrs. on one charge), and a whole lot more. And of course, NeoMagic is inside.
Although the Sony system has been out for a couple of months, the Toshiba just started showing up in my area on Sunday. In fact, I bought the first one at my local Best Buy.
These ultra slim notebooks are the future. They don't cost much more than the heavier, older generation notebooks yet pack all of the same features (with the exception of an internal CD ROM drive -- although you can use an external drive.) To my knowledge, NeoMagic has the only practical multimedia solution for these systems, given its small footprint and low power consumption. Thus, as the ultra slims push aside the larger notebooks, NeoMagic's dominant market share will only increase. Plus, I suspect that NeoMagic can charge a premium for ultra slim systems because there really is no competition.
Anyway, that's my report from the front lines.
Still long and loving it!
-- Jim |
