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At 12:13 PM 4/15/97 -0700, Don Perley wrote: > >>> IBM is expected to use Intel as the motherboard >>> manufacturing house, rather than use its own facilities, >>> and will provide an easy upgrade path for CPUs in the >>> new notebooks for a longer product cycle and reduced cost. > >I guess that means we can kiss off any notion of alternate CPU's >like PPC, Cyrex, AMD. You didn't seriously think IBM was going to use anything but, did you? They're a premium brand--they'll use premium brand parts. The only exception to Intel chips in the ThinkPad line was IBM's own licensed-from-Intel chip. But basically, this is part of the value proposition IBM makes with their ThinkPads. But hey, I'm just a business guy. ;-) ------- Randy Whittle rwhittle@usa.net Marshall Graduate School of Business at USC http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. - Malcolm X