John, I retrieved the PC Week article on Dell laptop DVD from my ceramic library. The article actually is in the January 26 PC Week, page 47, and is entitled "Dell Divides to Conquer," by John Spooner. Here are some excerpts:
"The Round Rock, Texas company plans to soon add DVD (digital video disk) technology to the [Inspiron notebook] line."
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"Dell's Inspiron team is readying a DVD package for its notebook, including a double-speed DVD-ROM drive, a PC Card MPEG decoder [daughtercard???] and TV output, which will allow users to view DVD disks on their Inspiron or on a TV set connected to the notebook....."
"While vendors such as Toshiba... offer DVD on some high-end models, Dell's DVD package, priced at less than $350, will be available as an option on the Inspiron line this quarter... DVD will eventually be available on the Latitude family for corporate users, who may use it for presentations or training..." |
