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To: Maverick who wrote (32961)	5/28/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570659

Maverick - New Notebook Computers - Maybe Some New Design Wins for AMD's K6 {==================================} zdnet.com Notebook lines will be overhauled Compaq, NEC, Toshiba to unveil new models at PC Expo By John G. Spooner, PC Week Online 05.25.98 Compaq Computer Corp., NEC Computer Systems Division and Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. are readying upgrades and overhauls to their respective notebook PC lines. At PC Expo in New York next month, each is expected to display new systems based on Intel Corp.'s fastest Pentium II and Pentium II Processor with MMX Technology chips. The three are also expected to demonstrate at the show, behind closed doors, prototypes of portables featuring Intel's forthcoming 300MHz mobile Pentium II, sources said. The 300MHz mobile Pentium II is due from Intel in September, sources said. Compaq will demonstrate two new Armada 7000 series notebooks, which feature 266MHz Pentium II processors, 8GB hard drives and 14.1-inch screens, sources said. Also included will be 24-speed CD-ROM drives. Pricing was not available. Though Compaq officials in Houston declined to comment on unannounced products, they confirmed plans to refresh the entire notebook line with Pentium II processors by the end of the third quarter. NEC, of Mountain View, Calif., will release a new line of systems, internally dubbed the "Universal" notebook, which share common components and docking solutions, sources said. One unit will be a thin-and-light notebook, measuring about 1.2 inches thick and weighing less than 5 pounds. The notebooks will feature Pentium Processors with MMX Technology and Pentium II processors as well as 13.3- and 14.1-inch screens, sources said. Pricing for a unit with a Pentium II processor and a 13.3-inch screen will start between $3,000 and $4,000, sources said. NEC officials declined to comment on unannounced products. Toshiba, of Irvine, Calif., will demonstrate the new Satellite 335 series, which will be based on Intel's 266MHz Pentium MMX and will feature a 12.1-inch display. Prices will start below $2,500, sources said. NEC and Toshiba will announce their models prior to the show, sources said. Officials at both companies declined to comment. In related notebook news, Acer America Corp., of San Jose, Calif., next week will announce several models in its new Extensa 700 series. A high-end Extensa 710 model will include a 233MHz Pentium II processor, a 13.3-inch XGA-resolution display, 32MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive and a digital versatile disk-ROM drive, sources said. Priced at less than $4,000. The new models are expected to be available by mid-June. Officials declined to comment. One IT manager said he would focus on sturdy, midrange systems when evaluating new notebooks at the show. "If I were looking to buy, I'd look at the middle range. Something with a 13.3-inch screen, bigger hard drive and longer battery life is of more interest to me," said Dave Boychuk, PC/LAN specialist at Sun Core Energy's Sunoco refinery, in Sarnia, Ontario. The portable road to PC Expo {=========================} Paul

To: Maverick who wrote (32961)	5/28/1998 1:09:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570659

Maverick - HP to launch New Workstations with fast new processors. Will the K6 be used in any of these? Read on...and find out! Paul {===============} New HP workstations face Dell surge By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM May 27, 1998, 6:15 p.m. PT URL: news.com Hewlett-Packard will release three new Windows NT-based workstations based around 350-MHz and 400-MHz Pentium II chips next week as part of its effort to stave off a new threat from Dell. HP shipped more Intel/NT-based workstations in 1997 than any other vendor but was hit by inventory problems and a surge of shipments from Dell in the first quarter, said Tom Copeland, an analyst at International Data Corporation. "Dell in general had a good quarter, while Compaq and HP had to deal with channel issues," he said. HP, which has the broadest product line, is still the front-runner but the competition has inched closer, according to Peter ffoulkes, workstation analyst at Dataquest. A good portion of HP's sales also came through the Kayak XA series, HP's value workstation segment. "HP still sits happily on top of the Intel pile by our definition, but Dell has done pretty well," ffoulkes said. "You are going to see a lot of changes in this area." The workstations arriving next week will span three HP lines: the Kayak XA, XU, and XW. The Kayak XA-s will be the first of the XA series to be capable of running two processors, said Kathleen Tandy, North American product marketing manager for Kayak workstations at HP. Starting at a base price of $2,200, the XA-s comes with a 350-MHz or 400-MHz Pentium II processor, up to 768MB of memory, and a Productiva G100 graphics board from Matrox. The Kayak XU workstations come with the Matrox Millennium II graphics board and greater expandability for memory and hard drives. Typical XU configurations run in the $4,000 range. HP has also included the new chips in its high-end XW workstations. These workstations, which typically cost $7,000 or more, include the Visualize fx4 graphics subsystem first developed for HP's Unix workstations, Tandy said. XU and XW workstations are capable of running one or two processors. Most systems in all three lines also feature a fast system bus, which enables the processor to communicate with components at 100 MHz, compared to the 66-MHz speed used in most PCs and workstations today. In the second half of the year, these systems will be followed by workstations based around the "Slot 2" Xeon chips. While Xeon processors for workstations will run at the same speeds as upcoming Pentium II chips, workstations running Xeon chips will be capable of using four, rather than two, processors. The bus connecting the processor and the secondary "cache" memory will also run at the same speed as the processor, double the speed of standard Slot 1 Pentium II chips. This is expected to boost performance by speeding up the delivery of data to the processor. Performance aside, Xeon-based processors will likely remain a minority in the NT workstation world at least in the short term because of higher prices. "You are not going to be able to find a Slot 2 workstation for under $6,000 to $7,000," Tandy said. ""Slot 1 will continue to be the majority of NT workstation sales." Go to Front Door \| Computing \| Search \| Short takes \| One Week View