McMannis - Future Machines to Introduce $499 and $599 Celeron PCs
Check this out, Jimbo.
Intel's Celery Chip will be powering these sub $500 and $600 PCs - that sure is going to put the SQUEEZE on AMD and Cyrix.
Looks like deep CPU price cuts ahead for the CLones 'R US crowd !
Paul
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techweb.com
Another Vendor Enters
Sub-$600 PC Fray
(10/13/98 4:32 p.m. ET)
By Todd Wasserman, Computer Retail Week
Another new vendor said it plans to enter the
U.S. retail market with a low-end PC.
Future Power Technologies, a start-up headed
by Jack Legg, a former vice president of sales
for Korean PC maker TriGem, is teaming with
the Greenleaf Group, a Taiwanese component
maker, to release a $499 and $599 PC before
year's end.
Legg said the company also plans to launch a
retail-based kiosk program for its high-end line
in the first quarter of 1999.
Future Power's low-end attack follows a similar
one by Emachines, a start-up backed by TriGem
and Korean monitor maker KDS.
Emachines said it plans to launch a 266-MHz
Cyrix M2-based $399 PC and a $499 system
based on a cacheless Intel Celeron processor in
mid-November. Best Buy will carry the products,
said Emachines president and CEO Stephen
Dukker.
Best Buy declined to comment on this story.
Future Power said it plans to offer a 300-MHz
Intel cacheless Celeron-based system with 32
megabytes of RAM, a 3.2-gigabyte hard drive,
and a 56-kilobit-per-second modem for $499,
Legg said. The $599 version will also be based
on a 300-MHz cacheless Celeron, but will have a
higher-end configuration, Legg said.
Legg said he could not estimate how many units
the company may ship before year's end. "It's
quite a bit less than 200,000," he said, referring
to Dukker's estimate for Emachines' year-end
deployment. |
