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>>>>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 > >Have they dropped the IBM 586 brand? They were badging those as part of the >deal for fabbing the cyrex chips. 586 "brand"? If they've cut a deal to fab with another chip mfgr. (i.e. Cyrix), that would be whole different ball game entirely, as then the chip would at least *partly* be an "IBM". ------- 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