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A Year Ago: Notebooks Faster, But Not Cheaper
News The laptop performance push continues -- thanks to some upcoming chip upgrades -- but don't expect a slew of cheaper notebooks to flood the market any time soon. Speed and ease of use are nice, but analysts say it's about time manufacturers thought...
[May 16, 2001, 6:28]
US Report: New Mobile Pentium II Brings Cheaper Notebooks
News What I've found works better [for increasing performance] in notebooks is adding more RAM," said Steve Curcuru, at Mugar Enterprises in the US. Next month, Dell will offer 300MHz Inspiron notebooks starting below $3,000 (£1,830) and 300MHz...
[August 24, 1998, 8:33]
Five Years Ago: LCD Price Falls Mean Cheaper Notebooks
News First published 27 March, 1997 UK direct seller Rock Computers today slashed the cost of its Virtuoso notebook line. A 166MHz Pentium-based model with 24Mb RAM, 1.8Gb hard drive, 12.1-inch TFT and eight-speed CD-ROM drive falls £400 to £1,999.
[March 17, 2002, 6:01]
LCD Price Falls Mean Cheaper Notebooks
News UK direct seller Rock Computers today slashed the cost of its Virtuoso notebook line. A 166MHz Pentium-based model with 24Mb RAM, 1.8Gb hard drive, 12.1-inch TFT and eight-speed CD-ROM drive falls £400 to £1,999.
[March 27, 1997, 17:28]
One Year Ago: LCD Price Falls Mean Cheaper Notebooks
News Falls in LCD screen pricing are sending notebook prices south. UK direct seller Rock Computers today slashed the cost of its Virtuoso notebook line. A 166MHz Pentium-based model with 24Mb RAM, 1.8Gb hard drive, 12.1-inch TFT and eight-speed CD-ROM...
[March 27, 1998, 6:00]
Notebooks Faster, But Not Cheaper
News The laptop performance push continues -- thanks to some upcoming chip upgrades -- but don't expect a slew of cheaper notebooks to flood the market any time soon. While higher-performance notebooks based on the forthcoming PIII chips should be well...
[May 16, 2000, 15:24]
Faster Notebooks Target Bigger Spenders
News Instead of buying low-cost notebooks with less memory and cheaper dual-scan screens, consumers are opting to pay a little extra for fully featured notebooks, said Steve Andler, vice president of PC marketing for Toshiba America Information Systems...
[September 15, 2000, 11:41]
Big Price Cuts Ahead For Pentium 4-M
News The company continues to make notebook Pentium III chips, which are both cheaper and more battery-friendly, at the same time it is touting Banias, a new mobile chip coming in the first half of 2003 that Intel has already said will be its mainstay...
[March 27, 2002, 15:32]
Flash-based Notebooks Plagued By Returns
News Yet notebook makers and flash makers both want the industry to shift to cheaper flash that can hold two or more bits per cell, so the prices of these notebooks can be closer to conventional notebooks.
[March 18, 2008, 11:41]
Your Next Laptop: Made In China?
News Inventec, another manufacturer, has said it will open a facility capable of producing 200,000 notebooks a month in China, according to the Commercial Times. Most of the notebooks will be made for Compaq, according to Inventec's chairman.
[December 29, 2000, 9:38]
Intel Price Cuts Usher In New Pentium 4
News Gateway and Dell will be releasing new notebooks that include the chips. Notebooks are getting a makeover too. In New York on 23 April, Intel will show off new low-voltage chips for notebooks. In notebooks, the 866MHz and 850MHz "low voltage...
[April 16, 2002, 8:44]
Will Cheaper-chips Help Intel Dominate Wi-Fi?
News Historically, Intel has been able to enter, and ultimately succeed in, new markets when the products are intimately associated with the processor, such as chipsets or motherboards, or when low costs are an overriding factor, such as with flash...
[March 14, 2003, 12:08]
Sony Bundles 'free' Wireless Modem
News At Comdex, this past November, nearly every major manufacturer discussed plans for making wireless connections for notebooks both cheaper and easier. Sony is giving away a wireless modem with its Vaio notebooks, one of the many deals being offered...
[December 15, 2000, 10:17]
Intel Facing Celeron Speed Dilemma
News That product release will create the unusual situation where cheaper, Celeron-powered notebooks will appear to be faster than top-of-the-line mobile Pentium II notebooks. However, it is unlikely that notebook vendors, especially those selling to...
[August 10, 1999, 16:02]
Comdex: Jupiter Devices Chase Corporate Users
News And, at an average starting price of $899 (£550), the systems are also significantly cheaper than high-end sub-notebooks, which can cost about $1,799 (£1,100). The light, cheap systems are not meant to replace notebooks, but rather perform only a...
[November 16, 1998, 6:52]
Bright Future For Notebooks And Pagers
News This prospective feature is part and parcel of the growing popularity of notebooks. During the sleep state, a limited amount of current flows through notebooks as a means of life support, but all major applications cease functioning, which extends...
[March 28, 2001, 12:34]
Intel Notebook Chip Passes 3GHz
News Notebooks passed the 3GHz mark on Wednesday. The Pentium 4-M had been limited to 2.5GHz, in part to curb power consumption and to help broaden its appeal for smaller notebooks -- an area that the Pentium M now covers.
[June 12, 2003, 8:21]
Intel Sets Banias Release Date
News Pentium 4 chips for notebooks will still come out, but likely appear only in the consumer market, and then in the cheaper models. Some Pentium-M notebooks will go as long as six hours without a battery charge, according to Intel.
[February 7, 2003, 7:51]
Intel Readies Centrino Wi-Fi Upgrade
News But, as expected, it is now ready for customers to use in Centrino-based notebooks, Intel announced on Monday. Volume shipments of Intel's next Wi-Fi chips, a combination 802.11b/g part, won't be ready until the end of the year and should be in...
[October 29, 2003, 12:00]
Microsoft Makes Renewed Play For Living Room
News Toshiba began selling Media Center notebooks in June. Dell is also planning to sell notebooks with the Media Center operating system, while Toshiba is planning updated models with it. IDC analyst Roger Kay said that the crop of Media Center laptops...
[September 30, 2003, 12:50]
