Each year, PC Week magazine selects what it considers the best new products of the Comdex shows.

The big Comdex show in Las Vegas is two weeks later.

The Comdex show begins April 10.

Paul LaVista, the owner, said about 10 groups of high-tech types came in during the Comdex show.

The Comdex show is the largest showcase for new computer technology, and portable computers make up one of the fastest growing segments of the industry.

A few companies introduced new portables just before the Comdex show.

The arrival of software that runs under the new OS/2 operating system, which holds great promise for business software applications, was the big story at the Comdex show.

Smaller, faster and cheaper are the watchwords for personal computers at the Comdex show.

For other Comdex shows, the daily runs 24 to 80 pages, approximately half of which are ad pages, with rates of about $6,000.

It seemed as though most news conferences at the Comdex show were group endeavors, as if there were a stigma in making an announcement all by oneself.