Seagate Technology on Monday plans to announce the first manufacturer
to sell laptop PCs with Seagate's new hard drive that has built-in encryption
technology. Fremont, Calif.-based ASI Computer Technologies will start
selling computers equipped with Seagate's Momentus 5400 FDE.2 drive next month,
Seagate said in a statement. The computers, called ASI C8015, will be sold
through a number of ASI's partners, including Newegg.com, PowerNotebooks.com and
ZipZoomfly.com, an ASI representative said. In addition to an 80GB Seagate
drive, the ASI machine will feature a fingerprint reader, 15.4-inch display,
Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile 2.0GHz processor, Nvidia graphics with 256MB memory, 1GB
RAM and a DVD rewritable drive, according to ASI. The price is expected to be
about $2,150.