[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Brian D. Ropers-Huilman]

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Toshiba has been working closely with IBM for some time now and will
soon release PowerPC based laptops, based on the 970 / Power5 core.

perley@adelphia.net said the following on 2004-12-06 11:40:
|>Now this is interesting...ThinkPads available at the Apple Store???
|>Apple-branded x86 laptops with the famous IBM feel and quality? That
could
|>actually be quite cool.
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| I took it to mean more like IBM thinkpads with powerpc processors.
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| I seem to recall 8 or 9years ago a PPC based laptop running AIX made a
very brief appearance on the market.  Probably pulled because M$oft
cancelled the PPC port of windowsNT.
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| Ah, there it is: http://www.tecnopolis.ca/aixtp/tphistory.html

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