Welcome to the AST Laptop Homepage on MacDat!

AST Research/AST Computer was a computer hardware company that existed from 1980 through to the end of the 1990s when they went out of business. If you'd like to know more about the company, check out the video that The 8 Bit Guy did on his time working there from a few years back. If you'd like to know about their laptop computers, you're in the right place!

Model List (sorted by range)

I believe this list to be exhaustive.

	AST Premium Exec 386SX Series/Advantage! NB-SX20/SX25/SX25 Color Released: November 1990 Processor: 386SX ODM Manufacturer: In-House		AST PowerExec Series Released: 1992 Processor: 386 & 486 ODM Manufacturer: In-House
	AST Bravo NB/Ascentia 700N Series/Advantage! Explorer 486SX/33 Released: 1993 Processor: 486SX ODM Manufacturer: Quanta		AST Advantage! NB 486SX/33 Released: May 1994 Processor: 486SX ODM Manufacturer: TwinHead
	AST Ascentia 900N Released: June 1994 Processor: 486DX2 or DX4 ODM Manufacturer: In-House		AST Ascentia 800N Released: August 1994 Processor: 486SX, 486DX2 ODM Manufacturer: Quanta
	AST Ascentia 500S Released: September 1994 (if at all) Processor: 486SX ODM Manufacturer: Very likely Quanta		AST Advantage! Explorer DX4-100 (Explorer 212) Released: 1995 Processor: 486DX4 ODM Manufacturer: Samsung
	AST Ascentia 810N Released: May 1995 Processor: Cyrix 486DX2 ODM Manufacturer: Quanta		AST Ascentia 910N Released: 1995 Processor: 486DX2 or DX4 ODM Manufacturer: In-House
	AST Ascentia 950N Released: 1995 Processor: Intel Pentium ODM Manufacturer: In-House		AST Ascentia J Series Released: 1996 Processor: Intel Pentium ODM Manufacturer: Compal
	AST Ascentia P Series Released: 1996 Processor: Intel Pentium MMX ODM Manufacturer: Quanta		AST Ascentia A Series Released: 1996 Processor: Intel Pentium or Pentium MMX ODM Manufacturer: Samsung
	AST Ascentia M Series Released: 1998 Processor: Intel Pentium MMX ODM Manufacturer: Samsung	NO IMAGE	AST Ascentia VL Series Released: Processor: ODM Manufacturer: Samsung
	AST Ascentia 280M Released: 1999 Processor: Cyrix MediaGX ODM Manufacturer: Uniwill	NO IMAGE	AST Ascentia PS Released: 1999 Processor: Intel Pentium II ODM Manufacturer: Unknown
NO IMAGE	AST Ascentia 520i Released: 1999 Processor: Intel Pentium II ODM Manufacturer: Uniwill