Acorn revived to launch laptop PCs

By Tony Smith
Published Friday 5th May 2006 09:32 GMT

That one-time pioneer of British home computing Acorn is to sprout
once again. The creator of the Atom, Electron, Archimedes and BBC
Micro machines, of the ARM chip company and of the RISC OS is to be
revived next week as a purveyor of notebook PCs.

The company's refusing to say anything about the motivation behind the
revival, or who's spearheading the move, until it's formally launched
on 10 May. It has said it will offer four notebooks: the 12.1in Solo
Note, 14.1in Solo Book, 15.4in Desk Note and 17in Desk Book, all
equipped with WXGA displays, run Windows XP and will bundle Sun's Star
Office.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05...puters_reborn/


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geoff