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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (31935)	4/7/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Cube inside.... Vendors Ready 266MHz Notebooks By Daniel Lyons Irvine, Calif. -- Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. and Fujitsu PC Corp. rolled out new notebook computers that use Intel Corp.'s new 266MHz mobile Pentium II processor. Toshiba, based here, introduced two machines, the Tecra 780DVD and 780CDM. The 780DVD ships with a DVD-ROM drive while the 780CDM includes a 20X maximum CD-ROM drive. Like their predecessors, the new 780 machines are designed for corporate power users. "These are machines designed for consultants who travel on the road giving demonstrations of exotic database applications, or engineers, or industrial designers or just the top-level executives who want the biggest and baddest notebooks on the market," said Chris Abate, group marketing manager at Toshiba. The notebooks' biggest feature is horsepower. In addition to the new mobile processor, the Tecra 780CDM and 780DVD feature a 512-Kbyte L2 cache, an 8.1-Gbyte Ultra DMA/33 hard drive and 64 Mbytes of high-speed memory. These features are intended to deliver the capacity and performance needed to run applications traditionally reserved for desktop systems. The Tecras 780CDM and 780DVD are designed for presentations and other multimedia tasks. Both notebooks include 13.3-inch active-matrix displays, built-in hardware MPEG-2 decoding, Dolby Digital AC-3 sound support and 3-D graphics. ... Continued... techweb.com