Some of these notebooks will be prototypes, but some will be pre-production models, according to Transmeta executives. The company's coming-out party is significant in that no company to date has seriously competed against Intel in the business market. IBM has already said it will show off a Transmeta-based notebook. Compaq Computer and Gateway also are likely to be there, as both invested in Transmeta earlier this year. Still, it won't be an easy sell.
Corporate buyers are historically conservative and loath to adopt new technologies.
Transmeta notebooks also won't run Windows and Windows applications directly. Intel's Spindler downplayed coming competition between the two companies. Inc. All rights reserved.