MaxTech Corporation was the main US distributor of GVC Corporation, a Taiwan-based company that manufactured a variety of electronic devices, including modems, monitors, and computers. As such, all of MaxTech's laptops were made by Alpha-Top, GVC's laptop division.
Maxtech sold GVC laptops from 1994 up until 2001, when Alpha-Top was sold to Elitegroup Computer Systems.
This page mainly exists to link Maxtech's model numbers to Alpha-Top's. Links will send you to MacDat's section on the "Green" series of laptops.
MaxTech's naming schemes are a bit confusing, which is pretty common for these sorts of things. They marketed their laptops as "Yesbooks", but didn't use this name on their website, instead calling them the "X-753" for instance. They likely just have the Alpha-Top model numbers on the bottom and not anything from Maxtech, but I'm not positive on this.
MAXTECH'S WEBSITES: www.maxcorp.com (pre-1999), www.maxtech.com (post-1998)
View on the WayBack Machine.
Links will take you to the Alpha-Top pages for each model, if applicable.
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Yesbook X-740Alpha-Top Model: GREEN740 Sub-Models: X-740C, X-740T Website Name: Model 740 |
The X-740 is a 486-based laptop released in 1995. The X-740C had a passive matrix display and the X-740T had an active matrix display. |
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Yesbook X-751Alpha-Top Model: GREEN751 Sub-Models: X-751C, X-751T Website Name: XB-751 |
The X-751 is a Pentium-based laptop released in 1995. The X-751C is the only model number that I have seen, but I'd assume an X-751T also existed with the same differences that the X-740 models had. |
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Yesbook X-753Alpha-Top Model: GREEN753 Website Name: XB-753, 753 |
The X-753 is a Pentium-based laptop released in 1996. Compared to the X-751, it added a CD-ROM drive, faster processors, and other new features. |
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Yesbook X-755Alpha-Top Model: GREEN755 Website Name: XB-755, 755 |
The X-755 is a Pentium-based laptop released in 1996. It's a bit lighter weight than the 753 and is not 3-spindle. |
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Yesbook X-753 PlusAlpha-Top Model: GREEN753+ Website Name: XB-753 Plus, 753 Plus |
The X-753 Plus is a Pentium/Pentium MMX-based laptop released in 1997. It is pretty much a spec bumped X753, sharing the exact same external design. |
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Yesbook X759Alpha-Top Model: GREEN759 Website Name: X-759 |
The X-759 is a Pentium II/Celeron/AMD K6-based laptop released in 1998. This one is a 3-spindle laptop. |
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X-735Alpha-Top Model: GREEN735 |
The X-735 is a Pentium/Pentium MMX/Tillamook/AMD K6-based laptop released in 1998. This one is somewhat based on the 755 design and looks a lot more in line with laptops like the 753 rather than the 759. |
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G-728Alpha-Top Model: ? |
MaxTech called the G-728 a "MiniNotebook", whatever that means. Subnotebook? Something more similar to a Toshiba Libretto? I don't know. It's a Cyrix MediaGX system. It showed up on MaxTech's website in a February 1999 capture, but the last capture before then was in early December 1998, so it released sometime between then. I don't have any photos, and I don't know what Alpha-Top laptop this was. |
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X-783Alpha-Top Model: ? |
Released in that same 12/1998-02/1999 time period. I don't know anything about this one. |
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X-758Alpha-Top Model: ? |
Released in that same 12/1998-02/1999 time period. I don't know anything about this one. |
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X-770Alpha-Top Model: GREEN770 |
Released in 1999. Identical design to the 759 but with some different capabilites. |
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