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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (54583)	4/27/1998 12:13:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

All, HP expects Celeron to take Corporate market by storm: Monday April 27, 10:06 am Eastern Time Company Press Release HP Unveils Value-Priced Managed Corporate PC Company Expects Celeron Processor-based HP Vectra VE PC to Take Low-cost Corporate-PC Market by Storm PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1998-- Hewlett-Packard Company today unveiled a new HP Vectra VE PC based on Intel's Celeron processor. This entry-level addition to the HP Vectra VE line of value-priced, managed PCs delivers the processing power required to run business applications. The new PC includes standards-based manageability for easy PC tracking and trouble-shooting combined with the quality, compatibility and long product life cycle of all HP Vectra corporate PCs. ''IS managers making long-term IT buying decisions want a manageable corporate PC with a great set of features at an absolute best-value price,'' said Emilio Ghilardi, marketing manager of HP's Commercial Desktop Computing Division. ''These same IS managers also want a PC that has a long product life cycle and won't require frequent BIOS, driver and hardware upgrades -- the HP Vectra VE PC delivers this.'' Among the features that make the new HP Vectra VE PC easy to install, easy to deploy and easy to maintain in a corporate environment are the following: -- a pre-installed and tested 3Com Fast EtherLink XL network interface card (NIC) on LAN models -- The industry-leading 10/100 Base-T NIC provides fast, reliable networking and Remote Wake Up and Remote Power On support for off-hours PC management; -- integration of all major industry standards, including SNMP, Desktop Management Interface (DMI) 2.0, Intel's Wired for Management Baseline; -- HP TopTools Web-based management software for easy tracking and trouble-shooting of networked PCs -- The award-wining HP TopTools also features crash protection and resource monitoring to improve user uptime and protect data; and -- a full future-ready set of PC technologies at a value price, including Intel Celeron processors, AGP graphics, Ultra ATA hard drives and Universal Serial Bus ports (USB), as well as support for Microsoft PC98 and Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI). HP Vectra VE PC features include the following: -- Intel Celeron 266MHz processor and 440EX AGPset; -- 32MB SDRAM memory standard; -- 3.2GB or 2.5GB Ultra ATA-33 hard-disk drive; -- integrated ATI Rage IIc AGP graphics with 2MB memory; -- 32X MAX CD-ROM drive with 16-bit sound (multimedia models); -- 3Com 10/100 Base-T LAN Card (LAN models); -- HP Vectra LAN card ready -- drivers for leading network cards tested and preloaded (3Com, Intel and IBM); -- two USB ports; and -- Microsoft Windows(R) 95 pre-loaded. The new HP Vectra VE PC is scheduled to begin shipping in May at an estimated street price starting at $999 (U.S.). The HP Vectra VE PC is built to offer exceptional quality, reliability and manageability for corporate customers and to strengthen the reputation of the HP Vectra PC as the best-value corporate PC available. HP TopTools is a PC-management software package that can manage both DMI 1.X or 2.0 PCs remotely, either as a powerful, flexible, standalone PC-management solution or as a plug-in to such leading network-management solutions as HP OpenView and CA Unicenter TNG. HP TopTools is preloaded for free on every HP Vectra corporate PC and is available for download via the World Wide Web at hp.com.