Intel Investors - Faster and Cheaper Pentium II Notebook Computers are coming.
Ibexx - please take note.
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Powerful notebooks get cheaper
By Jim Davis
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
August 13, 1998, 12:05 p.m. PT
A number of major vendors have been
pushing Pentium II-based notebooks under
the $2,000 mark of late, but Gateway is the
first to approach this price with both a
Pentium II chip and a gigantic, high-quality
14.1-inch LCD screen.
Gateway revised its notebook lineup to
include the Solo 5150, which will be priced
starting at $2,299 for a 233-MHz Pentium II
processor, a 14.1-inch active matrix display,
a 2.5GB hard disk drive, and CD-ROM drive,
among other features.
A system with more
memory and about
sixty percent more
hard drive capacity is
priced at $2,699.
Toshiba, IBM, and
Compaq offer
notebooks with
Pentium II processors
that are at or near the
$2,000 mark. However, most of these
systems offer smaller, lower-quality dual scan
displays.
Industry analysts say that over the past year
the cost of components such as hard disk
drives, displays, and processors have
dropped faster than manufacturer's prices,
making notebooks cheaper to build. As long
as component prices continue their rapid
decline, PC makers can continue to make
respectable profits on notebooks.
In related news, IBM
said it is adding a
new model to its
popular new "thin
and light" ThinkPad
600 series. The
4.7lb. notebook will
come with 233-MHz Pentium II processor,
12.1-inch active matrix display and CD-ROM
will be priced at $3,199.
The Solo 5150 notebooks, which are
Gateway's "thin and light" notebooks, will be
in general availability on August 24. The
systems are currently available for corporate
and government accounts.
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