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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:17:40 -0500
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Jules Gilbert <julesg@newebmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: heard on the grapevine...
Message-ID:  <41A21F34.3090601@mitre.org>
In-Reply-To: <41A1BFA6.9050908@newebmail.com>
References:  <41A1BFA6.9050908@newebmail.com>

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Jules Gilbert wrote:

> A friend of mine was recently contacted by DELL.
>
> They offered him a 45-day free trial of a dynamite laptop, based on 
> 1920 pixels on a side, and AMD 64-bit internals, running at 2.2Ghz.  A 
> battery consisting of 12 cells, instead of the usual 8, which they 
> claim will support four hours of use.
> Probably, it's a decent system.

Is Dell finally going to offer an AMD chip in a system?  This would be a 
first for them you know.  Every other Dell on the market has Intel chips.

> For free.  For 45 days.

Sounds like a beta program to me.  I woudln't read too much into it.




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