Nimantics Orion 8X-200

darth-azrael (66)in #retrocomputing • 8 years ago

Source: http://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2017/02/16/nimantics-orion-8x-200/

The ad above is from Boot magazine, the predecessor to Maximum PC. The Nimantics Orion 8X-200 represented the state of the art for a laptop in early 1997. Just look at the power!

A 200 MHZ Pentium processor!
48 MB of RAM!
A 2.1 GB hard drive!

Laugh now if you want but this much power cost a pretty penny then. There's no price in this particular ad but I can say with certainty that it would have been well over $3000. Just to give you an idea of prices of the time, the 486 DX2 based PC I bought in the summer of 1993 was $2999 and the Pentium II 300 MHZ PC I got Christmas 1997 was about the same price and those were desktop systems, not laptops which tended to be quite a bit more expensive.

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