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To: Maverick who wrote (32956)5/27/1998 1:56:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 1580134
 
Maverick - IBM to make sub $1000 PC s with Intel's Celeron !

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IBM offers PC based on Intel Celeron chip

Reuters Story - May 26, 1998 12:44

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., May 26 (Reuters) -
International Business Machines Corp unveiled on Tuesday a new
desktop personal computer based on Intel Corp's
low-cost Celeron processor.
IBM said the new model, which will be added to its PC 300GL
commercial line of computers, will be available at estimated
reseller prices starting at $969, making it IBM's first
commercial desktop to debut at under $1,000.
While IBM has other systems in its commercial lineup priced
lower, those are discounted older models.
Intel launched Celeron in April to combat growing
competition in the low end of the PC market from Advanced Micro
Devices Inc and National Semiconductor Corp's
Cyrix unit.
IBM currently uses a mix of Intel and AMD processors in its
consumer PC models but has kept its corporate lineup strictly
Intel-based.

The first new Celeron models will be based on Intel's 266
megahertz (MHz) version of the chip. Models based on a 300 MHz
Celeron will be announced when that version becomes available.

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Paul