Other notebook vendors to join the chorus Monday included market leader Toshiba, as well as Fujitsu and IBM.

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Notebook vendors eager to capitalize on the new technologies and the PIII's marketing clout joined Intel en masse Monday, announcing a plethora of new portable systems.

CNN: High-powered portables arrive in force

In addition, IBM announced that in May it will start supplying in volume two new 20G-byte and 30G-byte Travelstar hard drives to major notebook vendors, including Compaq, Dell, Gateway and the IBM Personal Systems Group.

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If this is correct, it doesn't take a math wizard to understand that having a single radio module that works virtually anywhere means notebook vendors can build a single model of a product and ship it anywhere in the world, knowing it can be activated on any of today's commercial networks.

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Qualcomm's not saying--but because notebook vendors are paid for each activation, which is sometimes more than they make on the notebook, you have to believe they might be willing to be creative in their pricing, and the cost of a module, which I suspect will be higher to start, will not be a significant a factor.

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