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To: Paul Engel who wrote (4603)	2/24/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Ayman Abukhater	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Paul, Here is another link: mobilecomputing.com middle of the page. It is also being advertised in several PC magazines. Ayman

To: Paul Engel who wrote (4603)	2/24/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Paul, "K6-233 notebook, check out: winbook.com; The add doesn't mention that the processor is a K6. Their sales people (1-800-254-7806) said that it had a Pentium 233 MHz chip inside. Boy, that's word of mouth for you! Know I know why Winbook is trying to hide the fact that their notebook has a K6. Check out this glowing review of the K6: The K6 has been touted as a low-cost chip that supports the multimedia-enhanced MMX instruction set and provides performance ranging somewhere between that of a Pentium and Pentium II CPU running at similar clock speeds. The WinBook XL we tested came with a 233MHz K6 processor, 64MB of RAM and a 3GB hard drive. While it's no slowpoke, the notebook was a bit sluggish compared with the average 233MHz Pentium system, both in overall system and multimedia performance. On the Norton Overall SI System test, the WinBook XL posted a score of 56.2, below the 233MHz field average of 59.2. Their main disadvantage: lackluster performance joey