10 Facts About Epson ActionNote

All entries in the Epson ActionNote line came preinstalled with MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, starting with Windows 3.

The first laptop in the series, the Epson ActionNote 4SLC-25, was released in April 1993 and featured a 486SLC with a clock speed of 25 MHz, later bumped to 33 MHz and 50 MHz.

The Epson ActionNote 4000, released in July 1993, sported a subnotebook form factor and had a 486SLC clocked at 33 MHz.

Epson ActionNote followed this up with the 766 series, the first laptop to offer Cyrix's 66-MHz 486DX2.

The Epson ActionNote series ended in January 1996 with the release of the 910C, which sported a 100 MHz 5x86.

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Manufacturing of the ActionNote was initially split between ASE Technologies of Taiwan and Epson's overseas plants in Singapore and Portland, Oregon, where the bulk of the company's personal computers were being manufactured.

In October 1993, Epson ActionNote shut down the PC production lines in their Singapore and Portland plants, repurposing them for the production of Epson ActionNote's printers and scanners while simultaneously moving all PC production to Taiwan.

Epson ActionNote concluded that its processing power and low cost meant that the ActionNote was a "way to get 486 processing muscle without breaking the bank".

Epson ActionNote criticized the use of plastic port doors, finding that they jammed and flexed and were liable to break.

Epson ActionNote called the execution of its touchpad flawed in contrast to the one on the PowerBook 500, with its left and right click buttons too small and the act of dragging and dropping items on the screen cumbersome.