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To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (178753)	7/20/2004 11:53:50 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

[duplicate post] Press Release Source: Intel Corporation Intel Delivers New Low Power Intel Pentium M and Intel Celeron M Processors Tuesday July 20, 11:00 am ET SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2004--Intel Corporation today expanded the Intel® Pentium® M processor and Intel® Celeron® M processor families with products aimed at the mini-notebook, sub-notebook and tablet PC segments that represent small mobile PCs typically weighing around 3 pounds. Intel's new offerings include the Intel Pentium M processor Low Voltage 738, the Intel Pentium M processor Ultra-Low Voltage 733 and 723, and the Intel Celeron M processor Ultra Low Voltage 353. All four processors are based on Intel's mobile micro-architecture and built using Intel's industry-leading high-volume 90-nanometer (nm) process technology. The Low Voltage and Ultra Low Voltage Intel Pentium M processors, in conjunction with the Intel 855 chipset family and the Intel PRO/Wireless network connection family, are key components of Intel Centrino mobile technology for mini-notebooks, sub-notebooks and tablet PCs. These new low voltage Intel Pentium M processors feature such architectural enhancements as a 2MB Level 2 cache, a power-optimized 400 MHz system bus, and enhanced data pre-fetcher and enhanced register access manager for fast execution of instructions at low power. These new processors also include Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology, which helps optimize application performance and power consumption to enable extended battery life. The Intel Celeron M processor Ultra Low Voltage 353 offers users a balanced level of mobile-optimized processor technology and exceptional value for small mobile PCs. Intel Celeron M processors are compatible with the Intel 855 chipset family as well as the Intel 852GM chipset to enable cost-effective, scalable platforms for system manufacturers. -0- Specifications and Pricing Power Thermal Price in Managed Design 1,000-Unit L2 Power Quantities Processor Frequency Cache (TDP) Voltage Packaging ------------- --------- -------- ------- ------- --------- ----------- Intel Pentium 1.40 GHz 2 MB 10W 1.11 V Micro $284 M processor FCBGA Low Voltage 738 ------------- --------- -------- ------- ------- --------- ----------- Intel Pentium 1.10 GHz 2 MB 5W 0.94 V Micro $262 M processor FCBGA Ultra-Low Voltage 733 ------------- --------- -------- ------- ------- --------- ----------- Intel Pentium 1 GHz 2 MB 5W 0.94 V Micro $241 M processor FCBGA Ultra-Low Voltage 723 ------------- --------- -------- ------- ------- --------- ----------- Intel Celeron 900 MHz 512 KB 5W 0.94 V Micro $161 M processor FCBGA Ultra Low Voltage 353

To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (178753)	7/20/2004 4:20:41 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 186894

Intel did not make a whole lot of money from this major Microsoft upgrade. I believe that situation is typical. In the past, you often didn't even bother upgrading software without doing the hardware at the same time, but these days it's harder to see a reason to do so. Until the software companies come up with softare that demands new hardware, the upgrades will be sporadic and often only in response to PCs that are no longer economical to repair or upgrade. What about the enterprise front ends mySap and Oracle? Those are java and as such sort of CPU hogs. On the enterprise side, I posted on another thread that I have noticed lately a lot of dot com sites running out of juice. Just recently the nordstrom site couldn't take orders on the first day of their sale (you had to call- in other words the transaction processing side of the site was down), and yahoo is FULL of bugs these days, plus slow. On the enterprise side, its time for at least some upgrades.

To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (178753)	7/21/2004 3:43:01 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Michael, RE: "My experience on the buying side of technology is that the hardware and software are increasingly disconnected." Most small businesses I know haven't upgraded in years through the period of "Austerity" so many are overdue. It's still cheaper for SMBs to chuck the old laptops (or PCs) and just buy new units. But replacement of the units gets pushed out a tad longer than at large companies. On a different note, what type of software programming languages were around back in 1968 - mainframe stuff, right? What year was the field of software development even invented? Regards, Amy J

To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (178753)	7/23/2004 12:32:23 PM
From: robert b furman	Respond to of 186894

Hi Mike, Great report. At my dealership we go thru a similar process. However our network is a recent addition - so our server is relatively new and GM satellite server has gone thru several upgrades. Speaking for a smaller business,when we get into software upgrades AND memeory upgrades - we just call Dell and order basic uniots that are more than adequate. To have people on the payroll who do what you do gives bigger firms much more frequent upgrades (I think ). To the degree that networks get installed in smaller businesses in the future,I think the upgrade cycle has its sweet spot lower in the food chain. It no doubt is easier to do the multi thousand PC deals than the 10-20. Thanks for the real world perspective. Bob