Joey - Re: "This doesn't look good if true...(i guess compaq never learns from its mistakes) - AMD K6 in Compaq Presarios"
Well, you win some and you lose some.
Here's a winner - IBM (as well as UMAX) is demonstating a Pentium II/Deschutes NOTEBOOK at Comdex:
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zdnet.com
IBM offers glimpse of
Pentium II notebooks, 17mm
unit
By Michael R. Zimmerman, PC Week Online
11.19.97 12:00 pm ET
LAS VEGAS-The mobile version of
Intel Corp.'s Pentium II processor may
not be due until the first half of 1998,
but IBM Personal Computer Co. last
night gave select attendees of this
year's Comdex a glimpse of working
prototypes of the ThinkPad 770
running the CPU.
At a party here celebrating the fifth
birthday of the ThinkPad notebook line,
IBM also showed off a working
prototype of a 17 mm-thick notebook,
code-named StingRay and equipped
with a lithium-ion battery, along with a
nonworking prototype of a subnotebook-sized E-mail device.
The two Pentium II-based ThinkPad 770s on display featured
two different 14.1-inch LCDs (XGA and Super XGA).
But what really wowed party partygoers was the StingRay.
Although the prototype is 17mm thick, officials from the
Somers, N.Y., company said the system will most likely evolve
into a 24mm- to 25mm-thick notebook in the 560 line.
IBM's E-mail device, though only a wooden mock-up now, will
evolve into a real unit based on Java, and possibly Windows
CE. In closed-door demonstrations, IBM showed under glass a
similar E-mail device equipped with the company's expandable
keyboard, popularized by the ThinkPad Butterfly.
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