ECS to sell "400,000 Aio" machines this year

GOODNESS GRACIOUS US. A report in the Economic News claims that Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) will bang out 400,000 of its 15-inch LCD integrated machines this year, a staggering figure, if true.

The report claims that the units, which will cost approximately US $1,000, and come with a P4 1.8GHz are now with distributors worldwide.

The machines support up to 512MB of SDRAM, come with a DVD-ROM, parallel and serial ports, Firewire, PC Card slot, sound blaster compatibility, and use the SIS 630 digital inferface.

The display is 1024 x 768 pixels, and ECS is supplying them as "skeletal" systems, with CPU and the like required.

Some folk are supplying them with PIII Socket 370 boards already.

The machines will also come supporting Athlon and Duron chips in Q4.

400,000? We think maybe ECS is being a tad ambitious here, because the same report reckons the firm will shift 600,000 "Desknotes" - desktop processors in a notebook chassis, during 2002 as well. µ