It's interesting that if the 386SX wasn't much simpler electronically than the 386DX, but mostly in packaging, that there was never a "386DL" for cost-no-object

It's interesting that if the 386SX wasn't much simpler electronically than the 386DX, but mostly in packaging, that there was never a "386DL" for cost-no-object laptops. I guess its market window might have been too narrow. It seems like if you wanted the performance back then, you might even go without a battery, so using a desktop CPU without the power-management special tricks is no big deal.