Welcome to the Sunrex Homepage on MacDat!

Sunrex is a Taiwanese computer peripheral manufacturer who today specializes in laptop keyboards. During the 1990s, they operated an entire laptop manufacturing division. Sunrex sold their laptops directly under three different brand names - SunRace (their old company name), InnovACE, and HyperData (both sub-brands). Sunrex also acted as an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM), selling their laptops to different companies who sold them under their own names. Sunrex is probably most infamous for making the laptops with number pads on the palmrest.

After they winded down laptop production in the mid-late 90s, they continued to operate the HyperData brand in the US as a reseller of other ODM laptops until 2006.

Company History

Most info sourced from here.

Sunrex was founded in Taiwan by 9 people in March 1990 as SunRace Technology Corporation. They began selling their first product, the Hyperbook 1000 handheld PC in October of the same year. In 1991, SunRace was purchased by Jing Mold Enterprises Co., LTD., a manufacturer a plastic mods. It was at this point that the company was renamed to Sunrex Technology Corporation, although they continued to use the SunRace name on products for a few years afterward.

Also in 1991, Sunrex established HyperData Technology Corp in Los Angeles in order to handle US distribution of their products.

At the end of 1993, the InnovACE brand name was also introduced. Sunrex says this was done in order "to differentiate a variety of product lines and to penetrate its target market". In the years since, this has instead seemingly just introduced further confusion into who actually made laptops that were seen branded under three different names.

By 1994, Sunrex had around 400 employees and they had entered markets all around the world. I believe this is also around the time that they began to sell their laptops to 3rd party distributors to rebrand and sell. I believe 1995 was around the time where they had begun to phase out the SunRace and InnovACE brands in favor of HyperData (although they still use InnovACE to this day for other products). Also in 1995, Sunrex themselves began distributing laptops made by other companies under the HyperData name, starting with laptops made by GVC's Alpha-Top divison. These were sold alongside Sunrex's own laptops up until their last laptop, the Hyperbook 735 in 1997. After this, Sunrex left the laptop manufacturing business and focused on their keyboard division instead. They continued to operate their HyperData brand well into the 2000s, lasting through the early Core 2 Duo era. During this time, they sold laptops manufactured by Chicony, Alpha-Top, MiTAC, Dual, Compal, and others.

Sunrex's Websites: www.sunrex.com.tw, www.hyperdatadirect.com

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Model List

In-House Models

Photo	Model	Info
	Hyperbook 1000	8088-based, DOS-Compatible handheld computer, released in October 1990. This was Sunrex's first "laptop". It ran at 9.54MHz, had 640K of RAM, a black and white LCD @640x200, a 1.44MB floppy drive, and a 20MB hard drive built-in. It appears to only have CGA grahics. It used a NiCad battery with a claimed 6 hour battery life. It also apparantly works with C-cell Alkaline batteries. I/O includes parallel, 2 serial ports, CGA out, TV out, an expansion bus of some sort, and an external floppy connector. It also looks like these shipped with some sort of custom graphical shell for DOS. There will be no dedicated page on this one as I don't have more info than what fits in this box. See this page for photos [a].
	Hyperbook 2000	286-based laptop, released in March 1991. Features: 16MHz 286, Coprocessor support, 1MB RAM Standard (up to 8MB supported), 8.75" 640x480 Grayscale Passive Matrix LCD, 1.44MB Floppy Drive, 60MB HDD, NiCad Battery, also supports running off Alkaline C cells. I/O: VGA Out, Serial, Parallel, SCSI, PS/2 There will be no dedicated page on this one as I don't have more info than what fits in this box.
	Hyperbook 2200 SX	386-based laptop, released in August 1991. Pretty much just a 386 version of the Hyperbook 2000. Features: AMD 386SX @25MHz, Coprocessor support, 1MB RAM Standard (up to 8MB supported), 9" 640x480 Grayscale Passive Matrix LCD, 1.44MB Floppy Drive, 120MB HDD, NiCad Battery, also supports running off Alkaline C cells. I/O: VGA Out, Serial, Parallel, SCSI, PS/2 There will be no dedicated page on this one as I don't have more info than what fits in this box.
	Hyperbook 2300 Series	Shipped with either 386 or 486 processors, 386 model initially released in March 1992, DX2 model introduced in June, then the SLC model launched in August. Used the same case as the previous two models. Features: AMD 386DX @40MHz, 486SX, 486DX2, Cyrix 486SLC or DLC. 4MB RAM Standard (up to 20MB supported), 256K external cache, 9" 640x480 Grayscale Passive Matrix LCD, 1.44MB Floppy Drive, 120MB HDD. I/O: Scanner Port, 9600bps Fax/Modem, SCSI-2 port,
	Hyperbook 3000 Series	486-based laptop, released in November 1992. This was their first of many to use this weird design with a number pad in the palmrest (yep, that's what that is).
	Hyperbook 300 Series	Shared the same case as the 3000 Series but with more features. Added PCMCIA, VGA Local Bus, NiMH battery support, and a Pen Touch screen option. This one released in August, 1993.
	Hyperbook 500 Series	The Hyperbook 500 was a 486-based subnotebook, released in June 1994.
	Hyperbook 600 Series	Sunrex's first Pentium laptop, released in August 1994. It appears to share a similar case design to the Hyperbook 300, but lacks the palmrest num-pad. This model was sold by Maximus as the PowerMax Color Book.
	Hyperbook 370 Series	The Hyperbook 370 is another weird one. The keyboard pops up to reveal a CD-ROM drive. I don't think they were the only one to do this, but I can't remember for the life of me who the other was. I know Panasonic did this in some of their laptops, but they're not who I'm thinking of. Beyond the weird CD-ROM design, it's a 486-based laptop, and has a sound card of course. It was released in October 1994.
	Hyperbook 300Plus	As the name implies, the 300Plus is an enhanced Hyperbook 300. They used Cyrix 5x86 processors (but also supported 486 chips), and also included an ESS1688 sound card. This one was released in late 1995 (passed FCC in October).
	Hyperbook 600Plus	An enhanced Hyperbook 600. It brought back the palmrest num-pad, supported faster processors, and also added an ESS1688 sound card. I don't believe the original 600 had sound capabilities. Given that they support up to 200MHz Pentium non-MMX processors, this model was at least sold through 1996, though I'd guess that it likely released sometime in 1995.
	Hyperbook 770	Sunrex's successor to the Hyperbook 370, uses Pentium processors. This one passed FCC in January 1996, so it likely released very shortly after.
	Hyperbook 700/750	Pentium/Pentium MMX-based laptop, released in 1996. This one was based on a new design, marking the end of the long-lived Hyperbook 3000 case. It was also the last major new laptop Sunrex ever produced in-house.
	Hyperbook 750Plus	Improved version of the 750. I'm not sure when this one was made, maybe 1997? The highlight new feature of this one was the 13.3" 1024x768 display option. It also used a darker colored case.
	Hyperbook 735	A lower end version of the 750Plus, released on July 11, 1997. I believe this was the last laptop that Sunrex ever produced.

HyperBook 300 photo is from Clous, used with permission.

ODM Models

The following were all ODM/generic laptops manufactured by other companies that HyperData resold. Models here where I know the ODM will link to pages on the generic version in order to avoid redundancy.

These are in order of model name for the time being because I don't know the release dates of all of them.

HyperData GREEN740 ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN740 1995	HyperData GREEN751 ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN751 1995	HyperData MediaGo 750 ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN753 1996	HyperData GREEN755 ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN755 1996	HyperData MediaGo 780/790 (KE77T) ODM Model: Mitac 5033 ?	HyperData MediaGo 780/790 (KE77M) ODM Model: Mitac 6133M ?
HyperData MediaGo 780/790 (KE77C) ODM Model: Mitac 6133 ?	HyperData MediaGo 785 (LR 73) ODM Model: Chicony MP983 ?	HyperData MediaGo 796 (KE77N) ODM Model: Mitac 6133 ?	HyperData MediaGo 800 (JC77) ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN753+ ?	HyperData MediaGo 850 (LP78) ODM Model: Chicony MP975A Likely 1997	HyperData MediaGo 870 (KE77N) ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN735 1998
HyperData MediaGo 900 (KV69) ODM Model: MiTAC 5027 ?	HyperData MediaGo 920 (LS59) ODM Model: Chicony MP978 ?	HyperData MediaGo 930 (DL79) ODM Model: Dual ERA-1000 ?	HyperData MediaGo 935 (LH79) ODM Model: Chicony MP993 ?	HyperData MediaGo 940 (KF79C) ODM Model: MiTAC 6120 ?	HyperData MediaGo 950 (JF79) ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN759 ?
HyperData MediaGo 950 AGP (JK79) ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN770 ?	HyperData MediaGo 960 (LG70) ODM Model: Chicony MP989 ?	HyperData MediaGo 980 (CP70) ODM Model: Compal TS30I ?	HyperData MediaGo 2000 (JM79) ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN795 ?	HyperData MediaGo 2010/2020 (EN74) ODM Model: "HB900" (unknown) ?	HyperData MediaGo 2100 (KF79N) ODM Model: MiTAC 6120 ?
HyperData MediaGo 2200 (KF79P) ODM Model: MiTAC 6020 ?	HyperData MediaGo 2210 (KF59) ODM Model: MiTAC 7020 ?	HyperData MediaGo 2300 (CQ70) ODM Model: Compal TS30W ?	HyperData Ultra Slim 2000 (TH77) ODM Model: Twinhead P90 ?	HyperData Ultra Slim 2200 (CR68U) ODM Model: Compal N20U ?	HyperData MediaGo 798 (UF 37) ODM Model: Uniwill 340S2 2001?
HyperData UltraSlim 2100 (KM67) ODM Model: MiTAC M722 2001	HyperData MediaGo 2310 (CQ60/62) ODM Model: Compal N38W2 2001	HyperData MediaGo 2500 (NC60S) ODM Model: 900X (Unknown) 2001	HyperData MediaGo 2600 (JP98) ODM Model: Alpha-Top GREEN799 2001	HyperData Warrior 2000 (RU57) ODM Model: Unknown 2001	HyperData MediaGo 2700/2710/2720 (KH69) ODM Model: MiTAC 7521 2001

HyperData MediaGo 1200 (UH57) ODM Model: Uniwill N340S8 Released: 2001		HyperData MediaGo 2320 (CQ602) ODM Model: N38W3 (Compal?) Released: 2001
HyperData Warrior 2100 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2001		HyperData Warrior 2200 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2001
HyperData MediaGo 2800 ODM Model: Compal Released: 2001		HyperData MediaGo 2730 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2001
HyperData MediaGo 2510 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2001		HyperData MediaGo 2750 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2001
HyperData MediaGo 1300 ODM Model: ECS i-Buddie series, I'm almost positive. Released: 2001	No Image	HyperData MediaGo 3000/CL002 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002
HyperData Model 8100 ODM Model: It looks like a Mitac (model 8170?) Released: 2002		HyperData UltraSlim 2300 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002
HyperData Model 1000 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002		HyperData Model 100D ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002
HyperData Model 3410 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002		HyperData Model 3560 ODM Model: Uniwill N356S1 Released: 2002
HyperData Model 7300 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002		HyperData Model 8500 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002
HyperData DeskNote 9200 ODM Model: ECS Green731 Released: 2002		HyperData Model 2500 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002
HyperData Model 1100 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002		HyperData Model 8600 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002
HyperData Model 8300 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2002		HyperData Model 3500 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2003
HyperData Model 1200 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2003		HyperData Model 2700 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2003
HyperData Model 9070 ODM Model: Looks like an ECS i-Buddie series Released: 2003		HyperData Model 8880 ODM Model: Mitac 8080 Released: 2003
HyperData Model 5000 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2003		HyperData UltraSlim 2430 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2003
HyperData Model 7320 ODM Model: ECS Green732 16" Released: 2003		HyperData Model 1010 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2003
HyperData Model 4700 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2003		HyperData Model 2550 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2003
HyperData Model 3000 ODM Model: Unknown Released: 2003