Laptop history & future

  99 98 (graduate in 5/00) 97 96 (retired) 95 (retired) 94 (graduated in 5/98 if we were on 4 year rotation)
Model 39?-?? 380XD 380D 365XD 360CE 3??-???
CPU Pentium II mobile, 256KB L2 cache, performance enhanced dixon class 266/300/333/366 MHz; or 233-300MHz Celeron mobile Pentium II 233MHz Pentium 150MHz Pentium 100MHz 486 DX2-50/25 MHz 386??-25/16MHz
RAM 96/128MB 64MB 32MB 16MB 12MB 8/4MB
HD SMART Ultra ATA, 6/8/10+ GB? 4GB 1.3GB 810MB 340MB 120MB
color/contrast 14" active matrix? digital interface/16:9? 24-bit 100:1 16-bit 30:1 16-bit 8-bit 8-bit or mono
graphics 256bit, MPEG2? digital camera? OpenGL? PCI, ZV, full screen MPEG1 PCI, ZV PCI VL ?
CD removable DeviceBay/UltraBay FX DVD? sw/hw wavetable? Dolby Digital sound? 10-24X 8X 4X none, 2X external none
network IEEE-1394 FireWire? 100Mbps 32-bit Cardbus,USB, 4Mbps IrDA 10Mbps 16-bit PC Card, 4Mbps IrDA 10Mbps 16-bit PCMCIA Card, 115Kbps IrDA, 1Mbps AMP wireless 10Mbps 16-bit PCMCIA Card, 2Mbps IBM wireless ?
modem   56Kbps V90 XJack 33.6/28.8 Kbps 14.4 Kbps 14.4 Kbps 9600 Kbps
OS 95c (OSR2.5), 98, NT4, 2000P (aka NT5WS) ? 95b (OSR2.1) 95b (OSR 2) 95a 95/WfWg 3.11 DOS
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