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To: Paul Engel who wrote (52126)	4/5/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Notebooks, Tillamook and PII The cover story in the January 20, 1998 issue of PC Mag featured 29 new notebooks based on Tillamook. For those who didn't read it, it starts: "PC Labs tests 29 color notebooks based on Intel's latest mobile Pentium MMX procesor, code-named Tillamook, to see how much power they pack. Less filling; tastes great. Or less power-hungry; runs great. That, in a nutshell, describes Intel's new Tillamook chip, which powers today's state-of-the-art notebook PCs, including the 29 we review here. This CPU is at once the most powerful notebook microprocessor you can buy today as well as the most energy-efficient CPU you can put in a mainstream notebook." Now, less than three months later, Intel and the makers introduce Tillamooks' replacement. I wonder if the consumer is confused? Some interesting statistics from the article. 1987 notebook sales were ~7.2 million units, with Toshiba, IBM and Compaq getting 40% share. These are high-end machines with the average street price around $4500. It's amazing that the new PII based boxes are rumored to come in below this. Question, is Tillamook going to be positioned at the low end now? If so, how will it look performance and power consumption-wise to PII?