The Pedion was a subnotebook computer developed by Mitsubishi Electric with Hewlett-Packard in 1998.[1][2] Hewlett-Packard marketed a rebadged version of the Pedion under their OmniBook brand of notebooks and subnotebooks, called the OmniBook Sojourn, in the same year.[3][4][5] Mitsubishi's subnotebook is named after the Greek word pedion (πεδίον), meaning "plain", "flat", "field".
| Developer | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Mitsubishi Electric |
| Type | Subnotebook |
| Release date | 1998 |
| CPU | Pentium MMX at 233 MHz |
| Memory | 64 MB of RAM |
At 0.7244 inches (18.40 mm) thick, the Pedion was the thinnest notebook computer in the world, even thinner than 2008's MacBook Air 0.75 inches (19.05 mm); the MacBook Air was 4 mm at its thinnest point, however. The Pedion included a Pentium MMX processor clocked at 233 MHz, 64 MB of RAM, and a 1 GB hard disk drive.[6]
The Pedion was the first laptop on the market to feature an island-style keyboard—a design for laptop keyboards in which they contain scissor-style switches with low travel and simplified flat keycaps separated from each other by a plastic bezel.[7][8] This style of keyboard technology would not proliferate on laptop keybords until nearly a decade later.[9]
Mitsubishi ceased production and withdrew the notebook from the market due to "mechanical problems".[1]
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- ^ HP OmniBook Sojourn Troubleshooting Guide (PDF). Hewlett-Packard. 1998. p. 1-3. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2008.
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