{"id":85547,"date":"1999-12-31T00:25:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/get-ready-for-the-400-notebook\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:25:00","slug":"get-ready-for-the-400-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/get-ready-for-the-400-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready For The $400 Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notebook manufacturers in Taiwan are now estimating that they can deliver a notebook priced at just US$299 (AUD$411).<\/p>\n<p><p><\/font><\/p>\n<p>This is not in some far distant future either. According to the Chinese-language Commercial Times the makers believe that they may be able to deliver such pricing in the second half of this year.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s see, five per cent margin on $411 discounted to an even $400 is, hum, ah, not worth opening the doors for. Who do we have to thank? The report references &#8220;leading CPU suppliers&#8221; as those assessing the idea.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>It all makes Nicolas Negroponte&#8217;s One Laptop For Every Child foundation look like rip off artists charging developing countries a whole US$100 for a crank driven laptop.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>In other, possibly related, notebook news, DigiTimes reports that leading notebook players in <st1_country-region w_st=\"on\"><st1_place w_st=\"on\">Taiwan have slashed their processor orders in the face of weakening demand.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Companies such as Dell, HP, Acer and Asustek have cut their Intel orders by as much as 30-50 per cent due to an unexpected rise in notebook inventory in the first quarter.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The strong desktop replacement sales they expected to start off the beginning of this year failed to materialise killing off single-core <st1_City w_st=\"on\"><st1_place w_st=\"on\">Sonoma sales. This is probably because buyers are holding off for the dual-core Napa-based notebooks just now hitting the streets.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>However, DigiTimes&#8217; sources indicate that consumers are not that keen on the new pricing of the <st1_City w_st=\"on\"><st1_place w_st=\"on\">Napa notebooks and won&#8217;t buy them either.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Add this to the end-of-year plans from Microsoft which will release a new operating system and Office 97 in the November timeframe and you have even more trepidation from potential customers concerned that their new notebook won&#8217;t be able to run the 64-bit enabled Vista.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The report says inventories should be under control through March, but <st1_country-region w_st=\"on\"><st1_place w_st=\"on\">Taiwan makers are urging Intel to bring forward a Yonah CPU price reduction currently scheduled for May 28.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=Footnote><\/p>\n<p>Additional Reporting David Tzeng, <st1_City w_st=\"on\"><st1_place w_st=\"on\">Taipei; Steve Shen, DigiTimes.com&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><st1_City w_st=\"on\"><st1_place w_st=\"on\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notebook manufacturers in Taiwan are now estimating that they can deliver a notebook priced at just US$299 (AUD$411).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-hardware","post_format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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