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To: Maya who wrote (41816)	6/8/1999 10:50:00 AM
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New IBM notebooks play video on TV By Brooke Crothers Staff Writer, CNET News.com June 8, 1999, 5:05 a.m. PT news.com IBM introduces today new consumer notebooks for movie playback on a TV, and new desktops, as the company continues to push aggressively into the consumer market. The new portable for the consumer and retail markets comes with a DVD player and equipment to allow hookup and playback on a standard TV. IBM is also announcing new Aptiva consumer desktop computers. The new "i" series ThinkPad portables are billed as a "Personal Entertainment Center" allowing the notebook effectively to serve the same function as a video cassette player connected to a TV, but using the new DVD format instead. DVD movies can also be watched directly on the notebook. Some other manufacturers provide this capability to connect to a TV but it is often done through a separate "expansion base" unit which attaches underneath and costs several hundred dollars extra. The new notebooks are also offered with large 14.1-inch active-matrix LCD screens, and an improved graphics chip. 3D sound is also built directly into the display, IBM said. The new models are equipped with Intel Mobile Pentium II and Celeron processors and an integrated modem. Prices will range from $1,799 to about $2,800. International Data Corporation said that consumer purchases of notebook computers grew 27.2 percent vs. desktops which grew 10.2 percent from 1997 to 1998.

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