Mike clapped desperately with a flushed face, he was originally an electronics enthusiast, his family was good, and he attended a prestigious school like Caltech. Although my major is not to study industrial design, I certainly know how difficult it is to design a notebook so thin.

The only thing to worry about is how well this iBook dissipates in actual use. As for performance, he didn't have much to worry about.

As Zack has just said, other competitors reduce the amount of heat dissipation by using a low configuration, so the iBook cannot be the same as them.

The performance of iBook is not comparable to the highest-spec notebooks of IBM and Dell, but at least it is the mainstream configuration!

That's the confidence iCom gave him! As for Jane who broke up, to hell, girlfriends don't have a computer to play.

Most of the cheering audience in the venue had the same mentality as him, but it was clear that there were many people who were in the opposite mood.

Conte TOEFL, Dell's vice president of marketing, is one of them.

Since there was no live TV broadcast of the iCom press conference, only AOL and Yahoo and Huaxia's Netcom did live text broadcasts, so in order to get first-hand information, Conte TOEFL looked around for two invitations to the press conference.

At the beginning, seeing Matrix's extremely aggressive sarcasm and sarcasm towards Dell, Conte Toefl only pouted slightly, he thought that only the weak would fight, and Matrix did this, clearly because he was very jealous of Dell's strength.

And when Zhang Chen announced that Matrix was about to open 50 to 100 specialty stores, Conte TOEFL almost laughed out loud.

He is a marketer himself, and he knows that in this era, specialty stores are no longer popular. And Matrix is now bucking the tide, apparently carried away by a little success. This plan won't bankrupt them, but it will certainly hurt the spirits of the damn Matrix like an ant.

With the TOEFL under pressure from both the board of directors and Mike Dale since iCom went public, it's great to see Matrix kill itself.

Although Bob Mansfield's announcement of the airport surprised him, he still sat firmly on the Diaoyu Tai. This is just some small gimmick, the PC is supposed to be left there and does not move, and this so-called ifi is useless at all.

When the iBook appeared in front of him, Conte's face became truly solemn for the first time.

While he still didn't think Matrix was a real threat to Dell, he was surprised by how quickly Matrix opened a new product line.

He is an insider, and understands that the development of a product like iBook is bound to take a long time, but Matrix has only been established for a year now, did they have a technical solution before it was established?

No, it can't be. And, even with the technical solutions, integrating the entire supply chain is not something that can be done simply.

Dell can indeed come up with a new product line in three months, but Dell is essentially a compatible machine. Just stuff the latest accessories into the case. But this is not the case with iBook, he knows with his ass that not only the shell, but all the accessories inside may have been redesigned, and the supplier must produce non-standard accessories according to their standards. Add in production and logistics time, how did Matrix do it in just four months?

"Perfect product!"

"Zack, you're a genius!"

Conte Toefl glanced at the two young men next to him who were shouting in disgust.

"Hey, dude, don't be gloomy, this is an iBook! Don't you want one? Look at my friend, he just fell out of love, and now he's so excited, come on, don't hang your head. Evan saw Contor's eyes and patted Conte's shoulder with a big grin.

Conte TOEFL silently dodged Evan's outstretched hand, "It's just a superficial article, I don't believe this computer is really cost-effective." ”

Mike and Evan stared, and they were about to refute, but they heard Zhang Chen on the stage speak.

"Some people may worry that the iBook can achieve such thickness and weight at the expense of performance. Frankly, their fears are justified, and it's quite normal that most brands will choose to compromise in order to achieve a relatively reasonable balance in order to reduce thickness and weight. Zhang Chen said calmly.

The enthusiasm of the audience gradually calmed down, and when you think about it, this is normal, even so, the iBook is still an excellent product.

Conte TOEFL smiled: "Look, I'm right." ”

Before Mike and Evan could react, Zhang Chen on the stage continued: "But in Matrix's dictionary, there has never been the word compromise, never! ”

The key configuration information of the iBook is listed on the large screen at the scene.

The audience was stunned at first, followed by eyes that could barely believe themselves. And Conte TOEFL widened his eyes like eating a dead fly.

"W-How is this possible? They changed the interface of the Pentium II?" Conte Toefl began to breathe rapidly.

"Yes, Pentium II, still Pentium II. Zhang Chen's voice was full of anger, "Not only that, 32M memory, 3.2g hard disk, 16x optical drive." On top of that, the iBook, like the iCom, is also equipped with nVdia's Riva128 graphics chip. God, I had the same look on my face when I saw this configuration. ”

The audience couldn't help laughing, and many people began to worry faintly, can the Matrix really solve the heat dissipation problem? Besides, how much does it cost to have a laptop with this configuration.

Zhang Chen continued, "In addition to thanking our excellent hardware engineers, we also need to give special thanks to Intel, which is also excellent. They helped us redesign the interface of the Pentium II, and without their tireless efforts, the iBook wouldn't be able to meet everyone so quickly. Pandev, you guys are really amazing, I have to applaud you guys, you guys are true geniuses by reducing heat dissipation by 40 percent just by sacrificing overclocking. ”

Intel's vice president, Pan Defu, smiled and sat in the audience as a guest, but in the first row.

"Damn!" Conte scolded, "I said long ago that it was a mistake to introduce AMD! It would not only make Intel remove the subsidy, but it would also push them to competitors." ”

Some time ago, because AMD's new CPU called K6 was very popular in the market with its high cost performance, Dell abandoned the exclusive partnership with intel and introduced AMD into the supplier system. Although Intel pays Dell a considerable amount of exclusivity every year, Mike Dell decided that it was too dangerous to be stuck in the neck by Intel, and eventually got together with AMD.

In this way, Intel's monopoly money is definitely gone, and Dell's good cooperation with Intel over the years has also produced serious rifts, and the relationship between the two has fallen to the freezing point of history.

(End of chapter)