Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!gwang From: gwang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (George Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: 386SX-20 40 Meg Notebook is coming soon for under $2000! Message-ID: <1991Mar31.053058.21608@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 31 Mar 91 05:30:58 GMT References: <1991Mar25.064131.3664@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois Lines: 33 In article jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes: >Ahem. This sounds both third-hand and blatently commercial to me. >Please keep advertising for unannounced, unavailable vaporproducts off >comp.sys.laptops, and the rest of the net for that matter. I am just merely allowing other interested notebook owners/purchasers know that there will be a newer and better laptop that they can buy for the money. If you noticed, I mentioned that I am an owner of a Zeos 286 Notebook... At the time, that was the best deal around.. I'm sure that other users would like to know if better deals exist given that they may have to wait a little bit... Again, I am just letting others know that a better deal will exist. > >By Xmas, VGA, 20 MHz 386SX, 40 MB disk notebooks (ie, <8 lbs) should >not be terribly special. $2,000 would be a good price, but sounds >rather pie-in-the-sky to me. With AMD's new power-conserving, >highly-integrated Am386 part, we'll probably even be seeing the first >25-40 MHz notebooks by Xmas. If you've bothered to read my follow up message, you would have noticed that I mentioned that the notebook is now being targeted for a JUNE sales release.. In the original message, I mentioned that the prototype design should be ready by June if not sooner (there were some design/ production delays)... George -- George Wang - Networking Development T T National Center for Supercomputing Applications | T | INTERNET: gwang@ncsa.uiuc.edu \_|_/ UUCP: gargoyle!igloo!gwang PH: (217) 244-4020 -