The palmtop features an NEC V30 clocked at 7.15 MHz, came shipped with MS-DOS 5.0 in ROM, and has a monochrome LCD capable of displaying graphics at maximum resolution of 640×200 (CGA).

[4][5] It came shipped with a copy of MS-DOS 5.0 in ROM, as well as Microsoft Works 2.0, Lotus 1-2-3 2.2, and an application selector called RacePen.

[7] However, no external floppy drive was offered to transfer files to and from larger desktop computers via sneakernet; a direct serial connection was required for that.

[6] Michael Urlocker of the National Post concurred: "The Pocket PC keyboard was significantly better for touch-typing than any of the other machines because its keys were marginally larger and didn't have the chiclet feel of so many portables".

[9] Brit Hume of The Washington Post called the lack of conventional external storage and the non-backlit nature of the LCD drawbacks to the machine.

[15] The UPI writer William M. Reilly found the Zeos Pocket PC usable in a number of different environments and ended up preferring it to his desktop computer.

[19] The Prolinear Palmtop PC received a substantial hardware upgrade when it was released in the spring of 1993, sporting an AMD 386SX-LV clocked at 25 MHz.