Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Taiwan-based motherboard and PC maker Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) is planning to launch a US$599 notebook in March or April.
The notebook, equipped with Transmeta’s Crusoe CPU, will command the lowest price in the market to date, sources said. Unlike ECS’s DeskNote mobile PCs, the low-price notebook will come with a battery.
ECS’s DeskNote A907, released last December, is currently priced at around US$600-700. Sources added that Taiwan’s Inventec will contract manufacture a US$500 low-price notebook for an international brand vendor in the second half of this year.
Compal Electronics is also said to have landed orders to manufacture a low-price Presario notebook for Hewlett-Packard (HP), though specifics about the model number and pricing are unclear.
Dell Computer set the low-price record for notebooks to date with its Inspiron 2650C, equipped with a 1.6GHz Mobile Celeron CPU, which saw its unit price decline to US$699 (with a mail-in rebate) early this month. The company also recently lowered the price of its Inspiron 1100 notebook, equipped with a 2.0GHz Mobile Celeron CPU, to US$799.
By: DocMemory
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