Toshiba desktops on tap for spring/summer 1997

While the notebook Number One will try its hand at consumer systems in the US next month, the UK market is only penciled in for the first half of next year, by which time the desktop specifications will have been updated.

While the first US systems will be targeted at consumers, they will be followed by business systems, and the same route is likely to be followed here.

"This is going to be really interesting," said a source familiar with Toshiba's roadmap. "This will take them head-to-head with IBM, Compaq and the rest."