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infoworld.com
Fujitsu, HP roll out new notebook PCs
By Douglas F. Gray
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 1:44 PM PT, Feb 1, 1999
Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard both announced new notebooks Monday with prices starting at $1,499.
Fujitsu announced new additions to its LifeBook E and LifeBook C Series notebooks, and also made 15 percent price cuts on the LifeBook L Series. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard expanded its OmniBook line with the introduction of the OmniBook XE notebook.
The four new Fujitsu E Series notebooks, available Feb. 16, will cost from $1,499 to $3,099. The E Series is aimed primarily at mobile business users. They feature the 333-MHz or 366-MHz Pentium II, or the 300-MHz Celeron processor. They have dual multifunction bays, and the LifeBook E370 comes standard with a hot-swappable Iomega Zip drive. The E340, available in September, will have a 266-MHz Pentium II
processor.
"This is very competitive pricing ... and the LifeBooks have all the specs [users] are looking for," said Katrina Dahlquist, a senior mobile computing analyst at International Data Corp., in Framingham, Mass., of the new Fujitsu machines.
Adding the 300-MHz Celeron processor to the E342 makes it the most affordable of the E Series.
"The Celeron was designed as a low-cost entry item," Dahlquist said "IT directors are going to know what Celeron means, where the average SOHO [small office/home office] user or college student may not." The
Celeron only has 128KB of on-board cache, and the Pentium II has 256KB.
The C353, with a 300-MHz Pentium II and an active-matrix display, is aimed at college students and users whose primary computer is a notebook. It is priced at $1,499.
The two notebooks in the L Series, also designed for mobile professionals, have been reduced in price. The LifeBook L440, with a 266-MHz Pentium II processor, has been reduced from $2,699 to $2,299, and the L440-B, with detachable bay, has been reduced from $2,899 to $2,499.
According to Dahlquist, the pricing on the L series is now extremely competitive.
"It's a nice notebook, I really question why they dropped [the price]," Dahlquist said.
The HP OmniBook XE, available currently, is an all-in-one notebook, with an estimated street price starting at $1,499. The XE will have a built in 6.2GB or 4.1GB hard drive; a floppy drive and CD-ROM drive; and a 56Kbps modem. The notebook will be available with a Pentium II 266-MHz, 300-MHz, 333-MHz or a Mobile Celeron 266-MHz. It will also feature 64MB or 32MB of Syncrhronous DRAM, expandable to 256MB. All
models will come with a feature allowing playing of audio CDs without powering on the computer.
Fujitsu PC Co., in Milpitas, Calif., can be reached at www.fujitsu-pc.com. Hewlett-Packard Co., in Palo Alto,
Calif., can be reached at www.hp.com.
Doug Gray is a Boston correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate.
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