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Pentium 60/66 laptop?

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keke

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Just wondering if any laptops were produced with the first version of Pentium CPU.
 
Not saying they didn't exist, but never seen one and the power consumption/heat dissipation issues make it unlikely. If they did exist, then there would have been some serious cooling having to go on to contain it in a small case.
 
I know several models of laptops from Alpha-Top that supported 75 MHz Pentiums. Perhaps one or more that used plug-in CPU modules and crossed over from 486's to Pentiums by adding a new module.
 
A quick google shows there was a nantan FMA7600.

I’d imagine there were a few others as well. I remember my boss having a pentium II latptop around 1998, when everything was still Slot 1 in desktops, and I was amazed they could make a laptop with it. (Obviously not a slot 1 in a laptop) I’ll bet a pentium 60 laptop would have been similarly impressive to people.
 
FWIW I had an AST Ascentia 950n P/75 which was issued to me when I was with the feds. It was an honest to goodness workhorse and I hated to turn it in when I retired back in '07. The OS was W3.1 w/DOS, and it was used for radio communications software as well as telco intercepts. It froze up one time at about -30F while on the job in Sault Ste. Marie, MI. When it thawed out it was as good as new.
 
I had a P75 laptop myself, a Dell XPi P75DT, that I got a P90 out of it due to the FDIV math bug. :)
 
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