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Audible has a proprietary formula for compressing sound into a digital form that can move from its website over phone lines into your modem and computer. It takes only eight minutes for a 56K modem to download an hour of audio. To do this, you'll need Audible's software, which comes with a nifty 3.5-oz. rechargeable MobilePlayer ($199) that holds two hours' worth of stuff. A newer model that holds 7 1/2 hrs. and costs $299 is supposed to ship next week...
...Sony has just introduced an even newer model, the Vaio 505FX, people looking for a great on-the-road machine should check out Toshiba's Portege 3010CT. The Portege weighs 2.9 lbs. and still packs a 10.4-in. active-matrix color screen, a 4.3-gigabyte hard disk and a 56K modem into its 3/4-in.-thick box. Both machines have 266-MHz Pentium chips and 90%-size keyboards, and both are in the $2,000 price range. The Sony is $100 cheaper, but I prefer the Toshiba because it has what I think of as a belly-button-style pointing device...
...steady drop in cost and rise of swifter, sleeker products are pushing another trend as well: the expanding corps of small businesses that can act bigger than their size by going online. With quick 56K modems and low-cost servers, lots of businesses see the Web as an opportunity that has arrived...
...have PCs will have lots of PCs. Networking them saves money, since even the dumbest machine will be able to share files with the smartest. Or connect to a single printer. Or tap into the Pentium II in the home office and blast out over the Net on its 56K modem. In February 1999, Intel plans to start shipping a chip that will be built into both computers and peripherals, allowing them to network through the phone jacks in your house...
...least, that's how it seems, based on how IBM's new ThinkPad i Series turned out. The company's first consumer-targeted notebooks, due out next month, are priced at $1,499, $1,999 and $2,499. All have active-matrix color screens, 56K modems and 20X CD-ROM drives. And inch-wide Altec-Lansing stereo speakers...