Intel Investors - More Small Mini-Notebooks with Pentium CPUs are coming.
Check out the 3 pound Tillamook "mini" coming from Hewlett Packard.
If these "minis" become a new market segment, like the Palm Pilot, for business applications, Intel could find a burgeoning new market develop - Pentiums-On-The-Go.
Paul
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Mitsubishi unveils
mini-notebook
By Jim Davis
October 2, 1997, 3:00 p.m. PT
update Mitsubishi has unveiled a
computer that competes with Toshiba
in the emerging market for
"mini-notebook" computers.
The notebook is already being offered
at select Egghead Computer stores for
$1,999.
Mitsubishi plans to officially introduce
the mini-notebook by the end of
October. It is a competitor to Toshiba's
Libretto.
The Amity CN is a Windows 95-based
machine which comes with a 133-MHz
Pentium processor, 16MB of memory,
a 7.5-inch color display, and a
keyboard that's larger than the Libretto.
By comparison, the Libretto has a
75-MHz Pentium processor and
6.1-inch display.
Mini-notebooks are lighter and smaller
than typical notebooks and usually run
Windows 95, in contrast to the current
crop of handheld PCs, which run the
Windows CE operating system.
Although even smaller than ultralight
notebooks such as Apple's 2400 and
IBM's ThinkPad 560, the Amity offers
processing power equivalent to that
found in the low end of the current
standard-sized notebook market.
Prior to the introduction of the Libretto,
mini-notebooks with reduced-size
keyboards had not sold in very high
numbers in the U.S. market, mostly
due to the difficulty of typing on them.
Mitsubishi's device will offer a bigger
keyboard than the Libretto in an
attempt to find users who desire a high
level of portability and access to
information while away from desktop
PCs. So far, the Libretto has been a
big seller at retailers.
Mitsubishi has been increasing its
activity in the U.S. notebook market of
late. The company is working with
Hewlett-Packard on producing a
superthin (.7-inch) notebook with
12.1-inch display that weighs 3.1
pounds and will be available with a
200-MHz or 233-MHz Tillamook
processor. The notebook will be sold in
the U.S. by HP under the OmniBook
name, while Mitsubishi will sell it as the
Pediom in Japan.
The introduction of the Amity CN also
marks the wholesale start of
Mitshubishi's push into the U.S.
market. It is one of the last major
Japanese electronics manufacturers to
enter the U.S. market, entering after
the likes of Toshiba, Sony, Hitachi,
Fujitsu.
The Amity CN will be available initially
at EggHead Computer, according to a
Mitsubishi spokesperson. |
