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Technology Stocks : ULBI..Ultralife Batteries -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: webpilot who wrote (200)	3/24/1998 3:34:00 AM
From: Javelyn Bjoli	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 522

Note, they say lithium-ion, not lithium-polymer, and mention design issues. I believe HP is going with the non-ULBI solution for the time being. ________________________________________ HP Aims New Notebook At Executives -- Powerful, ultrathin machine trades off drives, battery life for lighter weight March 24, 1998 Information Week via NewsEdge Corporation : Hewlett-Packard is aiming for corporate executives with the introduction of Sojourn, an ultra-thin notebook with a $5,800 price tag. The 0.75-inch-thick unit, due to ship next month, has a 12-inch display and a durable magnesium case. The Sojourn is powered by a 233-MHz Pentium MMX processor, and has 64 Mbytes of memory, a 2.1-Gbyte hard drive, and a 128-bit graphics controller with 2 Mbytes of video RAM. It weighs just three pounds. The machine doesn't have a diskette drive, or parallel or serial ports; it does come with a Universal Serial Bus port that can accommodate a low-bandwidth peri- pheral such as a mouse. "Many users are willing to give up an integrated floppy and CD-ROM to have the convenience of a lightweight system," says Phil Redman, an analyst with the Yankee Group. "The average weight of a notebook computer with drives is still seven to nine pounds." Included in the Sojourn's price is a "multimedia slice," which functions as a portable docking station providing serial and parallel ports, a diskette drive, and a 24x CD-ROM drive. It snaps onto the bottom, adding nearly an extra inch of thickness. A trade-off for the light weight and sleek design is shorter battery life. The lithium ion battery delivers about 1.5 to 2 hours of use, says product manager Tuan Tran. That compares with at least three hours in other notebooks that have recently hit the market. HP offers an $800 "battery expansion slice " that attaches to the bottom of the Sojourn and adds an extra 4.5 hours of battery life and two pounds in weight. HP had planned to come out with the Sojourn during the first quarter. But design issues pushed the release back, says Tran. For example, the original design allowed the keys to travel less than 1 millimeter vs. 3 millimeters on standard notebooks, making it awkward for users. HP changed the design to let the keys go slightly deeper.