Alpha Laptop

Alpha Laptop

Posted Feb 17, 2008 17:45 UTC (Sun) by anton (guest, #25547)
In reply to: not to mention... by xoddam
Parent article: Asus hopes upcoming Eee desktops are Eeequally Eeenticing (ars technica)

On the subject of non-x86 laptop processors, did I once see a DEC laptop announced with an Alpha processor, circa 1999? Did such a beast ever exist, or is it a figment of my fevered imagination?

I once saw a laptop based on an Alpha CPU, but not from DEC. On Wikipedia I find mention of the ALPHAbook 1 by Tadpole (based on the 21066). I don't know if the laptop I remember is the ALPHAbook 1. A problem with the Alpha in laptops was that there never was a low-power Alpha CPU.

Tadpole also produced a number of SparcBooks.

And there used to be some ARM-based laptops around.

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