COMPAQ INTROS LIGHTWEIGHT, FEATURE RICH PROSIGNIA POWERED BY PENTIUM III, II.Houston-based PC maker Compaq Computer Corp. said last week it will begin shipping its Prosignia Notebook 170 in December. The new feature-rich notebook received the Computer Reseller News Recommended Award earlier this month during Fall Comdex '99. With prices starting at $2,336 and monthly lease prices starting at $78, Compaq says the under six-pound Prosignia Notebook 170 offers a "lightweight solution with desktop performance." MultiBay technology makes the notebook configurable with available CD- ROM, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , 2nd battery or 2nd hard drive options. Other options include Intel Pentium II The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code named "Klamath," the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions. and Pentium III processors, up to 18GB hard drives and an ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. Mobility P graphics controller with 8MB of SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. . The notebooks feature a choice of either touch-pad or EasyPoint IV pointing stick and an integrated V.90 PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). data/fax model or Modem/NIC combination. The 170 also ships with ready-to-run software such as Microsoft Office 2000 SB, Symantec Norton AntiVirus software and Windows '98. It is backed by a three-year parts and one year labor, mail-in repair warranty. |
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