IBM Aptiva first to ship with 475MHz AMD-K6-2

IBM claims to be the first company to announce a home PC featuring the latest processor from AMD.

The newest Aptiva E Series model - the Aptiva 530 - is equipped with 475MHz AMD-K6-2, is aimed at home office and small business users.

The $1,299 Aptiva 530 comes with 64MB of SDRAM, a 13GB hard drive, a 32X CD-ROM drive, an internal 100MB Iomega Zip Drive, ViaVoice speech recognition technology and Lotus SmartSuite software.

The new Aptiva will be available at select retail stores nationwide in May.

More information is posted on the IBM home page at http://www.ibm.com/aptiva .