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To: Joey Smith who wrote (57346)	6/5/1998 5:32:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Respond to of 186894

All, Acer announces small-business notebooks...and guess who's chip's are in the them??? hint: not the Gx or K6 good weekend all! joey techweb.com Acer Unveils Small Business Notebook Line (06/05/98; 11:25 a.m. ET) By Jeff O'Heir, Computer Reseller News Acer literally rolled out its first line of commercial notebooks aimed at the small- to midsized-business market. At its Hsinchu, Taiwan, factory, the Extensa 710 rolled down the assembly line as an army of young Acer (company profile) employees prepared the machines, due to hit the U.S. channel next week. The 710 family includes three models, all loaded with Intel Pentium II 233-MHz processors, 32 megabytes of RAM, and 56-kilobit-per-second modems. The entry-level 710DX, with an estimated street price of $1,999, has a 2.1-gigabyte hard disk drive and a 12.1-inch screen that is outfitted with Acer's "super clear-color" technology. The Extensa 710 family fills a gap between Acer's high-end Travelmate and entry-level Extensa lines of notebooks. Acer has not played in that middle market, said an Acer spokesman, and the Extensa 710 family marks its entry into that market, a spokesman said. The 710T, with a street price of $2,399, has a 3.2-GB hard disk drive and a 12.1-inch thin-film transistor (TFT) screen. The high-end 710TE, with a street price of $2,699, has a 4-GB hard disk drive and 13.3-inch TFT screen. All models ship with Windows 95 and will include a coupon for a Win 98 upgrade. The systems also include docking stations and a one-year warranty. Battery life on the systems is four to five hours. The machine's new form factor includes a fixed floppy drive port and a modular bay that contains a swappable port for a 24X CD-ROM drive, a DVD drive, and an LS120 Superdisk storage unit. Part of the reason for Acer's absence in the small- to midsized-business market was because of the strong sales of its high-end Travelmate line and the high-volume production of the low-end Extensa, the spokesman said. But now, because of the industry's increased focus on the small- to midsized-business market, Acer officials said the time is right to introduce a competitively priced high-performance notebook targeted at the traveling professional.

To: Joey Smith who wrote (57346)	6/6/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

The article you posted contains the following, Kumar said. "I don't want to blow the trumpet, but if you look at the data points on Intel, it either comes out of Rob [Chaplinsky] at Hambrecht & Quist, or myself." What do you think Kumar means by this? Sounds rather absurd to me! If I am interpreting this comment correctly, his and Chaplinsky's opinions are the only valid ones. How does Tom "the best there is - Intel at $200" Kurlak feel about this? It appears the analyst community has a very swollen collective head.