Intel Investors - New HP Notebooks are coming with PENTIUM II/Deschutes chips
Intel is rapidly pushing the transition to Pentium II chips - and that includes notebooks. April will be the month for this to really start taking place.
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zdnet.com
OmniBook refresher
HP plans new Pentium II-based notebooks,
ultrathin model
By John G. Spooner, PC Week Online
02.02.98 10:00 am ET
Hewlett-Packard Co. this spring plans
to refresh its entire mobile PC product
line with four new OmniBook
notebooks.
The OmniBook 3100, 4100 and 7100
lines will be based on Intel Corp.'s
forthcoming 233MHz and 266MHz
mobile Pentium II processors. In
addition, HP will debut an ultrathin
notebook based on Mitsubishi
Electronic Corp.'s Pedion, sources close to HP said.
All are slated to ship before the PC Expo trade show in June,
sources said.
The first notebooks to ship, the 3100 series, will refresh HP's
current, top-of-the-line OmniBook 3000 family, which offers
233MHz and 266MHz Intel Pentium Processors with MMX
Technology and 13.3-inch displays.
HP will announce the new OmniBook 3100 series in April,
sources said, at the same time that Intel, of Santa Clara, Calif.,
rolls out the mobile versions of its Pentium II processors. The
233MHz and 266MHz chips are expected then, and a 300MHz
version is anticipated by the end of the year.
Usurping the OmniBook 3000 line as HP's high-end series will
be the OmniBook 7100, sources said.
The 7100 will feature either a 13.3- or 14.1-inch screen.
Configured with 32MB of RAM and an 8GB hard drive, the
notebook will be priced at less than $7,000, sources said.
Filling in HP's midrange will be the OmniBook 4100. The new
notebook will be 1.5 inches thick and weigh about 5 pounds.
The 4100, priced at less than $5,500, will be configured with a
13.3-inch display, sources said.
HP's new ultrathin OmniBook is based on Mitsubishi's Pedion
notebook, which is 0.7 inch thick and weighs 3.1 pounds. It
comes with a 233MHz Pentium MMX processor and a
12.1-inch display.
HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., plans to position the notebook as an
E-mail machine for traveling executives and complement it with
a special service program that provides a dedicated number
that users can call for on-the-road service, sources said.
Other notebook vendors, including Dell Computer Corp., IBM
and NEC Computer Systems Division, are also gearing up to
ship Pentium II systems this spring.
HP officials declined to comment on unannounced products.
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